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Paul Newman was an American actor, film director, race car driver, and philanthropist, widely admired for his charisma and talent. His memorable performances in classic films and lasting humanitarian efforts made him an icon in both Hollywood and charity. He is also known for founding Newman’s Own, a food company that donates all profits to charity. Here are 47 of his quotes:

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

Paul Newman

It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, "I am terribly sorry. I'm tired."

Paul Newman

I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.

Paul Newman

Study your craft and know who you are and what's special about you. Find out what everyone does on a film set, ask questions and listen. Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

Paul Newman

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 am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet. In 1987, the average CEO against someone who was working in his factory was 70 times. It's now 410 times.

Paul Newman

I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

Paul Newman

When I realized I was going to have to be a whore, to put my face on the label, I decided that the only way I could do it was to give away all the money we make. Over the years, that ethical stance has given us a 30 per cent boost. One in three customers buys my products because all the profits go to good causes and the rest buy the stuff because it is good.

Paul Newman

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

Paul Newman

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

Paul Newman

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.

Paul Newman

I've repeatedly said that for people as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. We are actors, we make pictures - and that's about all we have in common. Maybe that's enough. Wives shouldn't feel obligated to accompany their husbands to a ball game, husbands do look a bit silly attending morning coffee breaks with the neighbourhood wives when most men are out at work. Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends - and not impose one upon the other.

Paul Newman

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.

Paul Newman

He has the attention span of a bolt of lightning.

Paul Newman

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

Paul Newman

The nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

Paul Newman

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

Paul Newman

Who's to say who's an expert?

Paul Newman

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

Paul Newman

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

Paul Newman