Paul Newman > Quotes

“For someone as controlled as I am, to experience the delight, the luxury, of being out of control, not to have an inkling of what’s around the next corner and to keep yourself constantly at risk, is simply pleasurable.”
― Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

“There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don’t know any of them.”
― Paul Newman

“Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest.”
― Paul Newman

“We were two provincial yokels thinking that what they had to say was terribly important because it was the first time they'd said it out loud to anyone.”
― Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man A Memoir By Paul Newman & Fight Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top By Harry Hill 2 Books Collection Set

“You can read about private jets and red carpets elsewhere. This is definitely not that.”
― Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

“For us, for what seemed like an eternity, the world stopped. There was the inevitable confusion and chaos to be dealt with, and the fog of grief.”
― Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man A Memoir By Paul Newman & Fight Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top By Harry Hill 2 Books Collection Set

“I’ve been accused of being aloof. I’m not. I’m just wary.”
― Paul Newman

“I wish I could do lots of things, but I can’t—and that doesn’t make me a bad person.”
― Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

“The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.”
― Paul Newman

“I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried...tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.”
― Paul Newman

“I never enjoyed acting, never enjoyed going out there and doing it. I enjoyed all the preliminary work-the detail, the observation, putting things together. Every once in a while I'd do a scene that might come together in some unusual way and I would be astonished. But that was a tiny percentage of the time I actually spent doing it.”
― Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

“What shuts down a person? That's what I want to find out. Isn't it that a person wants to be anesthetized because he doesn't want to feel whatever sensation might be available? It isn't that you don't care, but that you're always observing and so detached you can never get inside. The core has never had an opportunity to fly, to discover its own curiosity.”
― Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man A Memoir By Paul Newman & Fight Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top By Harry Hill 2 Books Collection Set