Quotes by Paul Newman

“You only grow when you are alone.”

“We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. Im not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life w...”

“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”

“Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.”

“There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.”

“I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that ma...”

“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”

“I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried — 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 ...”

“I've repeatedly said that for people as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. We are actors, we make pictures — and that's about all we have in common. Maybe t...”

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

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

“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences.”

“I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.”

“The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flatterin...”

“I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?”

“I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.”

“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 ...”

“Building weapons that we don’t need, don’t work, and aren’t necessary, and have no mission — that’s not bad politics, that’s robbery.”

“This is not a celebrity issue. This is a political issue and the concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to s...”

“To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.”