On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?" In response to radio interviewer who asked if he would co-star with Robert Redford in sequel to Indecent Proposal "Like a rocket!...I'd shack up with anyone for a million dollars. I'd shack up with a gorilla for a million, plus 10 percent." "You should see us when we get back to the bedroom." [on the success of Newman-Woodward collaborations, 1974] In 1982: "Acting is like letting your pants down - you're exposed." The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films. On philanthropy: "You can only put away so much stuff in your closet". "I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts." "If I ever feel like I'm doing something I've done before, I scrap it and start over again." "When I realized I was going to have to be a whore, to put my face on the label, I decided that the only way I could do it was to give away all the money we make. Over the years, that ethical stance has given us a 30 per cent boost. One in three customers buys my products because all the profits go to good causes and the rest buy the stuff because it is good." "It's all been a bad joke that just ran out of control. I got into food for fun but the business got a mind of its own. Now - my good Lord - look where it has gotten me. My products are on supermarket shelves, in cinemas, in the theater. And they say show business is odd." "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." "I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant." [Talking about Alfred Hitchcock]: "I think Hitch and I could have really hit it off, but the script kept getting in the way". "You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career." "I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood." "If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you." "Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why." "For those of you who like to scarf your popcorn in the sack, the good news is that Newman's Own contains an aphrodisiac." "Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?" "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?" "I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet, guys, because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close . . . but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about." "Study your craft and know who you are and what's special about you. Find out what everyone does on a film set, ask questions and listen. Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society." - his advice to young actors just starting out "I've repeatedly said that for people as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. We are actors. We make pictures and that's about all we have in common. Maybe that's enough. Wives shouldn't feel obligated to accompany their husbands to a ball game, husbands do look a bit silly attending morning coffee breaks with the neighborhood wives when most men are out at work. Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other...You can't spend a lifetime breathing down each other's necks." Twenty-five years ago I couldn't walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don't ask me about my movies and they don't ask me about my salad dressing because they don't know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet. "I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary." [What wife Joanne Woodward thinks of his love for racing] "She thinks competitive driving is the silliest thing in the world. It is also very scary for her, and she doesn't much care for it." "The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am." "I had no natural gift to be anything--not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches--not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me." "Better than Montana ... and my wife and I found a nice cemetery here." [Why he decided to stay in Connecticut] "It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired."' [After winning his first Oscar after so many losses] "Did I survive the first film? ["The Silver Chalice"] I did. I had dogs chasing me down the street. I was wearing this tiny little Greek cocktail dress - with *my* legs! Good Lord, it was really bad. In fact, it was the worst film made in the 1950s. My first review said that 'Mr Newman delivers his lines with the emotional fervor of a conductor announcing local stops.'" "I can remember in my high-school days and I kept thinking to myself: "Now, why did those actors go out in public after a certain age?" I mean, why would they wanna blow this image they'd worked so hard and allow themselves to be photographed? They should have just stayed at home and stayed young and youthful. And now it's there for everybody to look at - all our words, stuttering, and bad posture. All those things that should never happen, really. Well, times change. Yeah, it ain't so bad!" "We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger." -on his marriage to Joanne. "After the success of "Picnic", I had a lot of offers from Hollywood and I never accepted any of them. Finally, my agent said 'you know, they're going to keep knocking on your door and knocking on your door and at some point they're going to stop. So you better make sure you say yes.' That was when someone sent me a copy of "The Silver Chalice." I knew that was going to be a bomb." -explaining why he chose to do "The Silver Chalice." [Robert Redford on Paul Newman] "He tells the worst jokes. And that wouldn't be so bad if he didn't keep repeating them over and over." - 2005