What we got here is a failure to communicate. Paul Newman More Quotes by Paul Newman More Quotes From Paul Newman A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten. Paul Newman feudsangerforgotten People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it. Paul Newman agingablepeople I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me. Paul Newman nobleattitudethinking I can eat fifty eggs. Paul Newman eggsi-canfifty The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it. Paul Newman rolestryingcharacter I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown. Paul Newman browneyelying You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card. Paul Newman citizensactorscards I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. Paul Newman sense-of-humorwifetrying I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything. Paul Newman nutstryingwatches Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity ... I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough. Paul Newman gratefulmemoriesbook So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this. Paul Newman apollousesometimes In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life. Paul Newman larger-than-lifestarscountry I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock. Paul Newman teamsummerfootball So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me. Paul Newman hard I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary. Paul Newman accusedaloof It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels. Paul Newman spinningsatisfactionrunning 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. Paul Newman appreciaterealblessing I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business. Paul Newman drivenactingrunning I think transitions are never that noticeable, but they are always on their way. It has to do with distance and accessibility. People call it mellowing, but I think it's how available you are toward other people, or how much you distance yourself. Paul Newman distancepeoplethinking I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could announce a motive of lofty purpose. I've been accused of compassion, of altruism, of devotion to Christian, Hebrew, and Muslim ethic, but however desperate I am to claim ownership of a high ideal, I cannot. 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. Paul Newman christianchildrenthinking
