Quotes from Paul Newman

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

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 Sixties - I had to have my foot in everything then. I'm doing the same thing now but through an intermediary. You know. The food company. Maybe that's the way to go about it. You go right straight into the inferno, and when you get older, you pull back.

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

Every time we get into an argument about cooking or laundering shirts, she shakes her Oscar at me, and I'm dead in the water. It would be a great equalizer now after 33 years.

For some players, luck itself is an art

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

Well, 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.

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.

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

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

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 only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

What we got here is a failure to communicate.

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

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.

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

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

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.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.