Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.
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I picture my epitaph: "Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown."
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.
People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.
To be an actor you have to be a child.
You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
You only grow when you are alone.
Paul won a 2006 Golden Globe award for the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for his role in Empire Falls.
Paul's name was discovered on President Richard Nixon's "enemies list", after all the papers of Watergate were revealed.
Paul owns half of the Champ Car (auto racing) team called Newman-Haas.
Paul is the owner and founder of The Hole In The Wall Gang Camp, which is a summer camp for children with cancer and other blood-related diesases (and their siblings) in Ashford, Connecticut.
In 1993, Paul won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for all his charitable work.
In 1954, Paul made his screen debut in the film The Silver Chalice.
In 1953, while attending post-graduate school at Yale University's School of Drama, Paul starred in his first Broadway play Picnic.
After attending Ohio University for one year, he was expelled.
Paul trained to be a pilot while in the U.S. Navy, but was unable to complete because of his color blindness.
In 1968, Paul traveled the U.S. stumping for Eugene McCarthy during his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
Paul was voted the 6th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine.
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