The Best Paul Newman quotes

To be an actor you have to be a child. — Paul Newman

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself. — Paul Newman

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor’s Studio. — Paul Newman

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. — Paul Newman

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher. — Paul Newman

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood. — Paul Newman

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. — Paul Newman

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. — Paul Newman

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars. — Paul Newman

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility. — Paul Newman

The best thing you can give yourselves…is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live. — Paul Newman

Make sure you live life, which means don’t do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society. — Paul Newman

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them. — Paul Newman

Sometimes nothin’ can be a real cool hand. — Paul Newman

What we got here is a failure to communicate. — Paul Newman

Acting isn’t really a creative profession. It’s an interpretative one. — Paul Newman

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting. — Paul Newman

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets. — Paul Newman

Acting is like letting your pants down; you’re exposed. — Paul Newman

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you’re exposed. — Paul Newman

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience. — Paul Newman

I wasn’t driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business. — Paul Newman

I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, ‘The Silver Chalice,’ and now I’m playing a crusty old man who’s an animated automobile [in ‘Cars’]. That’s a creative arc for you, isn’t it? — Paul Newman

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others. — Paul Newman

A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten. — Paul Newman

I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers. — Paul Newman

I’m a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives. — Paul Newman

It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive. — Paul Newman

In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They’ve been demoted since then but they’re still treated as beings larger than life. — Paul Newman

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it. — Paul Newman

Hey Lord… Whatever I done… Don’t strike me blind for another couple ah minutes. — George Harris Kennedy

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It’s probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure. — George Harris Kennedy

I don’t go for the so–called ‘intimate’ stuff. Column items that report: ‘Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce–colored sheets in a heart–shaped bed.’ It leaves me cold. — Paul Newman

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. — Paul Newman

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow. — Paul Newman

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. — Paul Newman

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be. — Paul Newman

The negotiations one has to do with bicyclists and undergraduates in The early hours–around streets that frankly were designed for ponies–in These european cities is a little bit different. — Paul Newman

It’s really important to be attentive to the people who have less–who are less fortunate than you are. — Paul Newman

When you see the right thing to do, you’d better do it. — Paul Newman

The only question I ever ask any woman is, ‘what time is your husband coming home?’ — Paul Newman

You only grow when you are alone. — Paul Newman

Every time we get into an argument about cooking or laundering shirts, she shakes her Oscar at me, and I’m dead in the water. It would be a great equalizer now after 33 years. — Paul Newman

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team. — Paul Newman