Quote

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.

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
Weapons
Aren
Necessary
Building
Politics
Need
Robbery
Needs
Mission
Work
Missions

More quotes by 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
Acting is like letting your pants down you're exposed.
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
A rebel is a nonconformist who is constantly saying no, and I'm not that. I'm a conformist and I believe in progress, and you can't make much progress by saying no all the time. A rebel is destructive. I know I have something constructive to offer.
Paul Newman
Image
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.
Paul Newman
Image
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.
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
In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.
Paul Newman
Image
Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.
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
[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.
Paul Newman
Image
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.
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
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
An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.
Paul Newman
Image
You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.
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
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.
Paul Newman
Image
There are three rules for running a business fortunately, we don't know any of them.
Paul Newman