Frasi di Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman è stato un attore, regista e produttore cinematografico statunitense. Considerato uno dei più grandi attori della storia del cinema Hollywoodiano, nella sua lunga carriera Newman vinse tre Oscar, sei Golden Globe e un Emmy Awards, oltre a ricevere una stella sull'Hollywood Walk of Fame e altri riconoscimenti. Assieme a Ennio Morricone, Henry Fonda e Laurence Olivier, detiene il singolare primato di aver ricevuto prima l'Oscar alla carriera e poi come vincitore tra i candidati .

✵ 26. Gennaio 1925 – 26. Settembre 2008
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“Ho due regole da ricordare. Prima: è inutile mettere il freno quando sei al rovescio. Seconda: se le cose sembrano scure, finiscono con il diventar nere.”

Origine: Citato in Dizionario degli attori: Gli attori del nostro tempo, a cura di Gabriele Rifilato, Rai-Eri, Roma, 2005. ISBN 8839712895

“É inutile essere un artista se devi vivere come un impiegato.”

Origine: Tele sette enigmistica anno 41° N.52

Paul Newman: Frasi in inglese

“I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?”

Quoted in Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein (1988), p. 157

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

Quoted in John Skow, "Verdict on a Superstar," Time (1982-12-06)

“It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, "I am terribly sorry. I'm tired."”

Upon winning the 1986 Academy Award for Best Actor, (in The Color of Money), after having being nominated seven times; quoted in Tom O'Neil, "Gold Derby," http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2006/09/an_oscar_finall.html, Los Angeles Times (2006-09-03)

“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”

Quoted in Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures, ed. Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac (2006), p. 120
As quoted in Words of Wisdom : From the Greatest Minds of All Time (2004) by Mick Farren
Variante: If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

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

Quoted in The Times Online http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/the_hitch/article719803.ece (2008-01-26)

“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”

Quoted in "Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures" - Page 110 - by Yann-Brice Dherbier, Pierre-Henri Verlhac - 2006

“I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.”

Quoted in Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein (1988), p. 314

“I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.”

Quoted in "Paul Newman's Road To Glory", interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (2002-07-01)

“I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.”

Quoted in "Saint Paul," interview with John Aldridge, The Guardian (2005-04-10)

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

Quoted in "Paul Newman's Road To Glory", interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (2002-07-01)

“To be an actor, you have to be a child.”

Quoted in Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures, ed. Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac (Chronicle Books, 2006), p. 88

“Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.”

Quoted in Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures, ed. Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac (2006), p. 93

“Just when things look darkest, they go black.”

Quoted in "The New Book of Magical Names" - Page 100 - by Phoenix McFarland - 2003

“People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.”

Quoted in "Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures" - Page 74 - by Yann-Brice Dherbier, Pierre-Henri Verlhac - 2006

“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.”

Quoted in John Hiscock, "Still the blue-eyed boy," http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/07/13/bfnewm13.xml The Telegraph (2002-07-13)

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

Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell’s Filmgoers’ Companion ( 1984 http://books.google.com/books?id=SAAqAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Paul+Newman+Acting+is+a+question+of+absorbing+other+people's+personalities+and+adding+some+of+your+own+experience%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage)

“Building weapons that we don’t need, don’t work, and aren’t necessary, and have no mission — that’s not bad politics, that’s robbery.”

Quoted in "Working for New Priorities," http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0002/intervw.html interview with Anita Merina, NEA Today (February 2000)

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