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16 Quotes by Paul Newman

  1. 1.

    You only grow when you are alone.

    Paul Newman

  2. 2.

    To be an actor you have to be a child.

    Paul Newman

  3. 3.

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

    Paul Newman

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    Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

    Paul Newman

  5. 5.

    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.

    Paul Newman

  6. 6.

    Who’s to say who’s an expert?

    Paul Newman

  7. 7.

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

    Paul Newman

  8. 8.

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

    Paul Newman

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

    Paul Newman

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    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.

    Paul Newman

  11. 11.

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

    Paul Newman

  12. 12.

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

    Paul Newman

  13. 13.

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

    Paul Newman

  14. 14.

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

    Paul Newman

  15. 15.

    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.

    Paul Newman

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

    Paul Newman