Newman Quotes - Page 2

• There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

  Paul Newman

  Law, Two, Black

  14 Copy quote

• Lars is played by Ryan Gosling, the Prince of Tics, whose idea of acting is to wait a few beats before reacting to other people's remarks, as if acting were merely a matter of adhering to the seven-second delay rule. Jack Nicholson has made a career out of doing this sort of thing, as did Paul Newman, as did Marlon Brando (who the other two learned it from), but they didn't do it all the time and they were more fun to look at... Lars And The Real Girl joins a number of other recent films in the category of motion pictures where the director doesn't know that his protagonist is unsympathetic.

  Joe Queenan

  Girl, Fun, Real

  "Mannequin for all seasons" by Joe Queenan, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.

  Christopher Fowler

  Fun, Home, Adventure

  4 Copy quote

• Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists:  Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Religious, Art, Passionate

  4 Copy quote

• My first job at Graham-Newman was to prepare the annual report for that 10th year.

  Walter Schloss

  Jobs, Years, Firsts

  9 Copy quote

• I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Artist, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• "Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't answer. Do you mind me, Nick? it don't answer. Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope, to the last!"

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Boys, Mind

  5 Copy quote

• Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reading, Literature History, Mash Up

  4 Copy quote

• Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Beautiful, Cake, Ideas

  Diane Von Furstenberg, Evelyn Portrait (1976). “Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman”, Simon & Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I went to Hollywood. I put the action in Hollywood. I watched a lot of movies, maybe 100 or something close to that. I have tons of DVDs now at home. I don't know what to do with them because they're not useful anymore. My kids never watched them. I read a lot of autobiographies, listened to a lot of music by classical era composers like Franz Waxman, Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman and Leonard Bernstein. I listened to only that kind of music the entire time I was writing, even at home.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Kids, Home, Writing

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

  David Mamet

  Randy

  4 Copy quote

• Well David "Fathead" Newman was my first experience with improvisation. When I saw him play for the first time I realized that there is an importance of spontaneous music being made on the spot. It was so soulful and singing through his horn. So that's how I was inspired early on.

  Roy Hargrove

  Play, Singing, Saws

  7 Copy quote

• They [Tom Hanks and Paul Newman] were simply always high level masters, and taught me as a kid actor never to be an a*shole to anybody, because it would be very tough to get past where they are.

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Kids, Past, Taught

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair than I do now. My first reaction was that staying in Japan might be good for my social life.

  Paul Saffo

  Japan, Hair, Might

  Source: www.sfgate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.

  Christine Lavin

  Play, Julia

  4 Copy quote

• It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Stars, Would Be, Pieces

  "Read or Listen to the YES MAN Press Conference with Producers David Heyman, Richard Zanuck and director Peyton Reed". YES MAN Press Conference, collider.com. December 17, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a pretty happy camper. Look a little more like Paul Newman, maybe. Haha.

  John Warnock

  Looks, Haha, Littles

  80 Copy quote

• I'm excited to win a pole at Atlanta, one of the tracks you look forward to qualifying at every single year, and really happy to beat Ryan Newman, who is hard to beat here.

  Kasey Kahne

  Winning, Atlanta, Years

  4 Copy quote

• Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.

  Lee Marvin

  Two, Expenses, Millions

  9 Copy quote

• I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him

  Ed Harris

  Couple, Fun, Past

  7 Copy quote

• I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.

  Ed O'Neill

  Ghouls, Ideas, Guy

  4 Copy quote

• Paul Newman is simply not an actor and possibly not even alive; seems to be carved from wood, his movements stiff and jerky as a marionette, his one expression an agonized grimace as of wood trying to smile.

  Dwight Macdonald

  Simple, Actors, Alive

  "On Movies".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand the romance of business.. the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors.

  Paul Newman

  Running, Business, Romance

  14 Copy quote

• Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Summer, Laughter, Flower

  6 Copy quote

• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

  S. E. Hinton

  Movie, Home, Two

  The Outsiders ch. 1 (1967)

  10 Copy quote

  Show source