Paul Newman Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• To be an actor you have to be a child.

  Paul Newman

  Children, Acting, Actors

  "Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures". Book edited by Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac, October 19, 2006.

• Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

  Paul Newman

  Acting, Pants, Exposed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Paul Newman

  Personality, Acting, Childlike

  "Paul Newman's Road To Glory". Interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly, July 1, 2002.

• 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 [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?

  Paul Newman

  Men, Careers, Giving

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, June 12, 2006.

• I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.

  Paul Newman

  Summer, Football, Team

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

  Paul Newman

  Creative, Acting, Profession

• I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.

  Paul Newman

  Believe, Thinking, Acting

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• I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

  Paul Newman

  Emotional, Acting, Actors

  "Verdict on a Superstar". John Skow, Time Magazine, December 6, 1982.

• 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.

  Paul Newman

  Simple, Track, Acting

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

  Paul Newman

  Running, Acting, Driven

  "Verdict on a Superstar". John Skow, Time Magazine, December 6, 1982.

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