Paul Newman Quotes

The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'

Who's to say who's an expert?

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

Fill the moment and find variety.

From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

From salad dressings all blessings flow.

The spaghetti sauce is a good thing to think about. Morning, noon, and night, think about the spaghetti sauce. Think about hustling other people to buy the spaghetti sauce.

People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.

Where the hell are the singing cats?

I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

I can eat fifty eggs.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.

In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so curious about me that they would want to read that I wear underwear shorts with green polka dots on them.

It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

I changed my life today. What did you do?

Watching something is nothing like doing it.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning.

I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

For some players, luck itself is an art

There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.

Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.

There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

We all die, just a question of when.

There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best.