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

You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.

[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.

At the beginning of your career, it's 'Who is Paul Newman?' and then it's 'Get me Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Get me a young Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Who is Paul Newman?'

I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.

No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.

What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?