Paul Newman
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newmanwas an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, professional racing driver and team owner, environmentalist, activist and philanthropist. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 film The Color of Money, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many honorary awards. Newman's other films include The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, and The...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 January 1925
CityShaker Heights, OH
CountryUnited States of America
A man without enemies is a man without character.
If you have no enemies, you have no character.
[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.
I changed my life today. What did you do?
How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.
For some players, luck itself is an art
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.
If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.
I can eat fifty eggs.
I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.
The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'
No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.
I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.
So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.