234 Quotes by Paul Newman

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

There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

Fill the moment and find variety.

It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

We all die. It's just a question of when.

I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.

When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course, we got the whole idea of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community?