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

In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.

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.

Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.

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

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?

I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.