10 Paul Newman Quotes on Acting

Paul Newman quotes on acting

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

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

5. Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences.

6. I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

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

23. 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?

26. To be an actor, you have to be a child.

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

31. He makes it look so easy, and he looks so wonderful, that everybody assumes he isn't acting.

34. 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.