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American actor (1925–2008)

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Paul Leonard Newman (26 January 1925 – 26 September 2008) was an American actor and film director. He won numerous awards, including Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award and an Emmy award. A star actor by the late 1950s, he was also the founder of Newman's Own, a food company that donates all profits and royalties to charity.

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

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

It's all been a bad joke that just ran out of control. I got into food for fun but the business got a mind of its own. Now - my good Lord - look where it has gotten me. My products are on supermarket shelves, in cinemas, in the theater. And they say show business is odd.

There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

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.

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

when u have no enemies ,you are characterless.

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

"To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

Quoted in "Paul Newman's Road To Glory", interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (2002-07-01)"

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

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

Twenty-five years ago I couldn't walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don't ask me about my movies and they don't ask me about my salad dressing because they don't know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.

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

To be an actor, you have to be a child.

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