Paul Newman quotes

Paul Newman, an American actor, philanthropist, and race car driver, was one of Hollywood's most renowned personalities. Known for his mesmerizing blue eyes and charming persona, Paul Newman starred in numerous iconic films, including "Cool Hand Luke" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Beyond his acting career, Newman was also a passionate philanthropist, founding Newman's Own, a successful food company that donates all its profits to charity. Additionally, he pursued his love for racing as a competitive professional driver. With his significant accomplishments and charitable endeavors, Paul Newman's legacy continues to inspire generations today.

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

- Paul Newman

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

- Paul Newman

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

- Paul Newman

It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.

- Paul Newman

If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.

- Paul Newman

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

- Paul Newman

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

- Paul Newman

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 a hamburger?

- Paul Newman

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

- Paul Newman

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

- Paul Newman

I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too. I don’t look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.

- Paul Newman

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

- Paul Newman

To be an actor you have to be a child.

- Paul Newman

So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.

- Paul Newman

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

- Paul Newman

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

- Paul Newman

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

- Paul Newman

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

- Paul Newman

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

- Paul Newman

Who's to say who's an expert?

- Paul Newman

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.

- Paul Newman

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

- Paul Newman

You only grow when you are alone.

- Paul Newman

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

- Paul Newman

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.

- Paul Newman