5 Paul Newman Quotes on Creativity

Paul Newman quotes on creativity

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

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

15. 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.

18. I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

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