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
It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.
Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could announce a motive of lofty purpose. I've been accused of compassion, of altruism, of devotion to Christian, Hebrew, and Muslim ethic, but however desperate I am to claim ownership of a high ideal, I cannot. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck; the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.
It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.' [After winning his first Oscar after so many losses]
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.
The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.
People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.
A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.
On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?
The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.