Paul Newman Quotes - Page 6

From salad dressings all blessings flow.

There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

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.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best.

Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

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

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so curious about me that they would want to read that I wear underwear shorts with green polka dots on them.

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

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

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.

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

I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.

It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you an entry in the distinguished book of culinary records. Being known for great soufflé is one thing but a good hamburger? What would they say? "Yeah, he really knew how to put the cheese on."

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

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.

I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?

I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.

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