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
I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
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 had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.
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.
You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.
Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
To be an actor you have to be a child.
Each town has its own allure and it has its own character. This race would be different from Long Beach, it would be different from Edmonton, and you guys will put your own signature on it. It's a reciprocal trade agreement. Champ Car gets a great race, and you get a great three-day festival, so everybody wins,
Racing here for me is muscle memory. Running at the limit is just kind of average. You are always trying to go as fast as you can go. If you can do it one lap, the next lap can be just as easy until you get tired.
Costa Rica is a marvelous place to enter the atmosphere.
Three of us walked over there; I just carried the stuff back, ... They are getting along so they need all the help they can get.
From a human perspective, it's a little dismaying because this means there's still going to be higher levels of UV.
She was vibrant. She was stylish. She was tough. She was caring, and she will be sorely missed.