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Paul Newman
Age: 83 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 26
Died: 2008
Died: September 26
Actor
Entrepreneur
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Racing Automobile Driver
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Shaker Heights
Ohio
Paul Leonard Newman
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Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.
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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
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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.
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When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.
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I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.
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I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
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[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.
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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?
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I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.
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So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.
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There are three rules for running a business fortunately, we don't know any of them.
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It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.
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You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.
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I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand the romance of business.. the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors.
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It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
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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.
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It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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You only grow when you are alone.
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On adultery: Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?
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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.
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