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
You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.
You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.
I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too. Just hope when you get to that great racetrack in the sky, that the balance will tip slightly into those things that you'd be proud of.
Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.
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.
A man without enemies is a man without character.
If you have no enemies, you have no character.
[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.
I changed my life today. What did you do?
How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.
For some players, luck itself is an art
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.
If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.
I can eat fifty eggs.