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 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?
It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.
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.
It's been a privilege to be here.
When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.
Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest
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.
I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.
I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.
At the beginning of your career, it's 'Who is Paul Newman?' and then it's 'Get me Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Get me a young Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Who is Paul Newman?'
We've polluted the stratosphere with these chlorine and bromine compounds, and because it's now colder, and because we have this change in the climate, we're getting more ozone loss than we would have gotten in a normal year.
Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?
I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.
You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.