Paul Newman Quotes

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.

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

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

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 was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

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.

I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

You only grow when you are alone.

I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

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?'

Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

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?

There really is no such thing as a sick child; there are children who happen to be sick. Think about it, and you will understand the magic of the Camps

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.

The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

What we got here is a failure to communicate.

You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.

I would like it if people would think that beyond Newman, there's a spirit that takes action, a heart, and a talent that doesn't come from my blue eyes.

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.

I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

For those of you who like to scarf your popcorn in the sack, the good news is that Newman's Own contains an aphrodisiac.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand the romance of business.. the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors.

The concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a human trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet.

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.

Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

It's been a privilege to be here.