Paul Newman Quotes on 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.
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I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences.
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I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
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To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
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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?
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To be an actor, you have to be a child.
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The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
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He makes it look so easy, and he looks so wonderful, that everybody assumes he isn't acting.
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He has a good character, and not many people do. I think he would rather not do anything wrong, whether on a moral or an artistic level. He is what you would call a man of conscience - not necessarily of judgment, but of conscience. I don't know any actors like that.