Quote

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

Paul Newman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Citizen
Citizens
Sense

More quotes by Paul Newman

Image
Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.
Paul Newman
Image
So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.
Paul Newman
Image
Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.
Paul Newman
Image
How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.
Paul Newman
Image
There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.
Paul Newman
Image
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.
Paul Newman
Image
While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.
Paul Newman
Image
So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.
Paul Newman
Image
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.
Paul Newman
Image
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.
Paul Newman
Image
At the beginning of your career, it's 'Who is Paul Newman?' and then it's 'Get me Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Get me a young Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Who is Paul Newman?'
Paul Newman
Image
Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?
Paul Newman
Image
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.
Paul Newman
Image
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.
Paul Newman
Image
The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.
Paul Newman
Image
I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.
Paul Newman
Image
It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
Paul Newman
Image
Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other... You can't spend a lifetime breathing down each other's necks... We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.
Paul Newman
Image
Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.
Paul Newman
Image
Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
Paul Newman