Explore Quotes by Paul Newman

Fill the moment and find variety.

It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

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.

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.

When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course, we got the whole idea of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community?

Where the hell are the singing cats?

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.

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

People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

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

A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.

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

It's been a privilege to be here.

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

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.

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.