Quotes from Paul Newman

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

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

The spaghetti sauce is a good thing to think about. Morning, noon, and night, think about the spaghetti sauce. Think about hustling other people to buy the spaghetti sauce.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

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

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?

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.

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

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.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

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

You only grow when you are alone.

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.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

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

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

Who's to say who's an expert?

A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.

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.

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

I changed my life today. What did you do?