Quotes by Paul Newman

• So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.
• People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
• 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.
• Who's to say who's an expert?
• The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.
• Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
• Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
• Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
• Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
• To be an actor you have to be a child.
• 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.
• If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
• I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
• 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.
• Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.