Paul Newman

You only grow when you are alone.

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.

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

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

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 gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

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.

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I__ not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.