234 Quotes by Paul Newman

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.

It’s absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn’t.

You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don’t have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don’t even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

It's kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy. That's exactly what the country is like now. You no longer have the sense of community. Of loyalty. It's lost its sense of group. It has nothing to do with leadership.

There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.

Every time we get into an argument about cooking or laundering shirts, she shakes her Oscar at me, and I'm dead in the water. It would be a great equalizer now after 33 years.

George Roy Hill, Redford, and I have been looking for a script to do together for 13 years. We haven't been able to find one that we liked enough for the three of us to be in it together.