Quotes from Paul Newman

Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.

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

In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.

It's kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy. That's exactly what the country is like now. You no longer have the sense of community. Of loyalty. It's lost its sense of group. It has nothing to do with leadership.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

The nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'

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

George Roy Hill, Redford, and I have been looking for a script to do together for 13 years. We haven't been able to find one that we liked enough for the three of us to be in it together.

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.

What is the difference between a truly creative artist and an interpretive artist? I have not concluded anything about that, but it's fair to ask the question.

I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to... you start to lose your memory. You start to lose your confidence. You start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me.

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.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so curious about me that they would want to read that I wear underwear shorts with green polka dots on them.

I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.

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

I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.

There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.

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?

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