American - Actor | January 26, 1925 - September 26, 2008
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
Paul Newman
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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
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Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
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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.
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If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
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People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
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To be an actor you have to be a child.
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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.
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There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.
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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.
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Who's to say who's an expert?
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You only grow when you are alone.
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