Top Years of Paul Newman ( Poster Story )
On Winning an Oscar
“It’s like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say: ‘I’m terribly sorry. I’m tired’. ”
“You only grow when you are alone.”
On Aging
“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.”
On Retiring
“I’ve been saying I’ll retire for 10 years, so I can’t depend on that any more. I’ve said that I was going to abandon everything, and I’ve abandoned nothing.”
“I’m not able to work any more… at the level that I would want to. You start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So I think that’s pretty much a closed book for me. “
On Death
“I’d like to be remembered as a guy who tried - tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn’t complacent, who doesn’t cop out.”
“I picture my epitaph: ‘Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.”
“Newman’s first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down. “
“Newman’s second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.”
“I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, “The Silver Chalice,” and now I’m playing a crusty old man who’s an animated automobile. That’s a creative arc for you, isn’t it?”
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