Paul Newman Quotes (33 Quotes)

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

You only grow when you are alone.

The ozone hole is actually bigger than the entire continent of North America this year, and that's a record.

So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.

Skin cancer rates will go up. Sunburns will occur at a faster rate, degradation of plastics and so forth, because of enhanced ultraviolet radiation from a lowering of ozone.

Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.

McDonald's new Asian Salad plus Newman's Own low fat Sesame Ginger salad dressing is a marriage of taste - just like mine.

For those of you who like to scarf your popcorn in the sack, the good news is that Newman's Own contains an aphrodisiac.

I think my most memorable win was in 1979 when I won the SCCA National Championship at a race down in Atlanta, ... That was a very good race against tough competition.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool.

I picture my epitaph 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.'

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

Who's to say who's an expert?

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

Each town has its own allure and it has its own character. This race would be different from Long Beach, it would be different from Edmonton, and you guys will put your own signature on it. It's a reciprocal trade agreement. Champ Car gets a great race, and you get a great three-day festival, so everybody wins,

The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

Backstage they think the only reason he's even in the vicinity was because they told him this whole thing was yesterday.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

We lost the gearbox and I started sliding around out there. I was having a good time up until that point.

How many honest men do you know Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

We've polluted the stratosphere with these chlorine and bromine compounds, and because it's now colder, and because we have this change in the climate, we're getting more ozone loss than we would have gotten in a normal year.

I do not believe the framers of the Constitution would have considered this particular situation high crimes and misdemeanors.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

Racing here for me is muscle memory. Running at the limit is just kind of average. You are always trying to go as fast as you can go. If you can do it one lap, the next lap can be just as easy until you get tired.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.