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

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

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

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

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
Paul Newman

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

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

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

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

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

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

To be an actor you have to be a child.
Paul Newman

Who's to say who's an expert?
Paul Newman

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

You only grow when you are alone.
Paul Newman