Paul Newman Quotes

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.

[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.

So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.