Paul Newman Quotes

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

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

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

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

The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.

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

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.

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.

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

The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

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

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.

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

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

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

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

Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.

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

You only grow when you are alone.

Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?