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It's been a privilege to be here.

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Paul Newman
Age: 83 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 26
Died: 2008
Died: September 26
Actor
Entrepreneur
Film Actor
Film Director
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Racing Automobile Driver
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Shaker Heights
Ohio
Paul Leonard Newman
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Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission — that's not bad politics, that's robbery.
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Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.
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Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.
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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.
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I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But you can be competitive on the track, because the rules are very simple and the declaration of the winner is very concise.
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An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.
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I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
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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.
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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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The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.
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If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
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I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.
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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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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.
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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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It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.
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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.
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