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The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.
People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.
You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.
The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'
There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.
What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?
Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.
A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.
I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.
If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.
You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.
If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.
I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.
Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.
It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning.
I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.
While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.
There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.
Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.
A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.
[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.
Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.
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.
I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.
I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.
I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.
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.
I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.
It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'
How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.
I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.
A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.
For those of you who like to scarf your popcorn in the sack, the good news is that Newman's Own contains an aphrodisiac.
I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.
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.
The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
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 certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
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 think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.
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.