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When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.
Paul Newman
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Paul Newman
Age: 83 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 26
Died: 2008
Died: September 26
Actor
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Paul Leonard Newman
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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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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.
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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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The spaghetti sauce is a good thing to think about. Morning, noon, and night, think about the spaghetti sauce. Think about hustling other people to buy the spaghetti sauce.
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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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You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.
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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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If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
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