Paul Newman Quotes

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

You only grow when you are alone.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

At the beginning of your career, it's 'Who is Paul Newman?' and then it's 'Get me Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Get me a young Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Who is Paul Newman?'

There really is no such thing as a sick child; there are children who happen to be sick. Think about it, and you will understand the magic of the Camps

I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission — that's not bad politics, that's robbery.

The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

What we got here is a failure to communicate.

You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.

I would like it if people would think that beyond Newman, there's a spirit that takes action, a heart, and a talent that doesn't come from my blue eyes.

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?

For those of you who like to scarf your popcorn in the sack, the good news is that Newman's Own contains an aphrodisiac.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.

Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

It's been a privilege to be here.

I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.

A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.