Top Years of Paul Newman ( Poster Story )
On His Love of Racing
“I’m a very competitive person. I always have been. And it’s hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting.But you can be competitive on the track, because the rules are very simple and the declaration of the winner is very concise. ”
“I think my most memorable win was in 1979 when I won the SCCA National Championship at a race down in Atlanta, … That was a very good race against tough competition.”
On Charity
“I’m not a professional philanthropist, and 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.”
“The concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn’t hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a human trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. “
“I don’t think there’s anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It’s the other attitude that confuses me.”
On gay rights
“I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. 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. ”
On Gambling
“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you! ”
“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”
On Life
” Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.”
” A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”
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