Quotes By 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.

You only grow when you are alone.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

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

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

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

Who's to say who's an expert?

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.

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