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

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

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About Paul Newman

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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We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.
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