Occupation: Actor Birth: January 26, 1925 Death: September 26, 2008
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business..
I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals..
Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it..
The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility..
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 wit….
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 progres….
There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look dar….
Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size..
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood..
It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels..
You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other..
The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at th….
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 ga….
Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is..
To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting..
While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all..
You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card..
I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the news….
Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand..
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….
It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black..