Paul Newman Quotes

Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest

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

The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't.

It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.

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?'

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

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.

When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

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

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

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

So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

Who's to say who's an expert?

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

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'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.

You only grow when you are alone.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.

It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

Watching something is nothing like doing it.

From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.

Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

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

I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

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

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