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Paul Newman

(1925–2008) Television Actor United States

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Paul Newman was a television actor from the United States, best known for Sabon Kamus na Hausa zuwa Turanci.

Quick Facts About Paul Newman

Born: January 26, 1925
Died: September 26, 2008
Nationality: United States
Profession: Television Actor
Notable works: Sabon Kamus na Hausa zuwa Turanci
Spouse: Joanne Woodward

About Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, filmmaker, racecar driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He has been described as "one of the last of the great 20th-century movie stars". He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, seven Golden Globe Awards, an Actor Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear for Best Actor, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and nominations for two Grammy Awards and a Tony Award. Along with his Best Actor Academy Award win, Newman also received the Academy Honorary Award and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Kennedy Center Honors Motorsports Hall of Fame of America Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Theatre World Award Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award Academy Award for Best Actor Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

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Academy Honorary Award star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Want

Quotes by Paul Newman · Page 4

Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.

Inspirational

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Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

Actors

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

Action

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

Apollo

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I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

Bifocals

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I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.

Exciting

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[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.

Albania

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I changed my life today. What did you do?

Changed

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I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.

Believer

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You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got…

Balls

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The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

Dressings

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I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce…

Allure

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While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

Environmental

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Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to…

And love

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From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do…

Certain

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It's kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy.…

Community

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Where the hell are the singing cats?

Cat

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I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the…

Acting

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I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again.…

Hollywood

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

Acting

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

Adultery

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The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

Accusation

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It's been a privilege to be here.

Privilege

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You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the…

Accidents

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There really is no such thing as a sick child; there are children who happen to be sick. Think about it, and…

Camps

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