Quote

I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.

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
Cheese
Getting
Interesting
Enough
Good
Like
Mouldy

More quotes by Paul Newman

Image
I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.
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
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
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.
Paul Newman
Image
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.
Paul Newman
Image
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.
Paul Newman
Image
So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.
Paul Newman
Image
It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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
The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.
Paul Newman
Image
I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.
Paul Newman
Image
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?
Paul Newman
Image
So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.
Paul Newman
Image
The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
Paul Newman
Image
The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.
Paul Newman
Image
I can eat fifty eggs.
Paul Newman
Image
It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.
Paul Newman
Image
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
Paul Newman
Image
It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
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