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.

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

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

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.

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

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