Paul Newman

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.

Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

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

I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.

When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

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.

There really is no such thing as a sick child; there are children who happen to be sick. Think about it, and you will understand the magic of the Camps

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

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.

It's kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy. That's exactly what the country is like now. You no longer have the sense of community. Of loyalty. It's lost its sense of group. It has nothing to do with leadership.

The nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.

What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.

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