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Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.

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

I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?

Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.

Honey, Don't go shooting all the dogs 'cause one of them's got fleas

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

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

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

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

I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.

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

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs

I changed my life today. What did you do?

Watching something is nothing like doing it.

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

I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

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

Winning isn't everything ... it's just all there is.

Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

when u have no enemies ,you are characterless.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

Who's to say who's an expert?

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

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

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.

Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

If I ever feel like I'm doing something I've done before, I scrap it and start over again.

I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

It's been a privilege to be here.

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

For some players, luck itself is an art

I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.

When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

I can eat fifty eggs.

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

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

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

On adultery: Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

What we got here is a failure to communicate.

A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.

No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.

Fill the moment and find variety.

The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.

A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission - that's not bad politics, that's robbery.

You say somebody's guilty, everybody believes you. You say they're innocent, nobody cares.

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

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

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.

Where the hell are the singing cats?

On considering adultery - Why go out for hamburger when I can have steak at home?

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

Of course I know Julie Andrews. She's the last of the really great broads.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.

From salad dressings all blessings flow.

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

You only grow when you are alone.

I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.