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
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 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.
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.
I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
Fill the moment and find variety.
So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.
Where the hell are the singing cats?
The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.' [After winning his first Oscar after so many losses]
The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.
On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?
A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.
The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.