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
To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
Fill the moment and find variety.
The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.
Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.
There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.
If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.
I changed my life today. What did you do?
While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.
Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.
We ran (an unofficial track record) 52.4 when we tested here a month or so ago,