Paul Leonard Newman Quotes

Paul Leonard Newman (18)

Birth:	26th January, 1925
Death:	26th September, 2008
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Entrepreneur

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• 1946 - Xanana Gusmao
• 1930 - Catherine Aird
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• 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 darkest, they go black.”

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pessimism, Creed, Credo, Useless

• 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 Leonard Newman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Amazing, Booze, Living

• I don’t like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Marriage

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

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage

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

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wound, Swallow, Apollo, Hard

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

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Red, Actor, Hood, Character

• Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Tags in Acting and the Theatre

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

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Topics in Age

• You only grow when you are alone.

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Tags in Change/Growth, Solitude

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

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Tags in Creative, Profession

• 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 Leonard Newman

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Imagery, Acting and Actors

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

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Topics in Enemy

• 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 Leonard Newman

  Tags in Poker

• Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Topics in Money

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

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Tags in Losers and Losing

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

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Tags in Vinegar

• To be an actor you have to be a child.

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Tags in Actor

• Who’s to say who’s an expert?

  Paul Sweeney

  Tags in Expert