Paul Newman (Actor)

"Acting is like letting your pants down, you're exposed." - Newman quoted in GQ magazine, September 2002

"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." - Newman to the Daily News, June 10, 1991

"I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to. You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention. So that's pretty much a closed book for me - I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough." - Newman to ABC's "Good Morning America" on May 24, 2007

"It's devilish. It's like, you know, grabbing a thunderbolt, especially when everything is shot out of continuity, when everything depends on a scene that isn't even written yet. That's what I mean by devilish, in that way. You have to make judgments about where you're going to be. But I'm really loose in ways I haven't been in a long time." - Newman on his role in "Nobody's Fool" to The Los Angeles Times, April 3, 1994

Awarded the Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatrical's Man of the Year Award in 1968.

He received an honorary LH.D. from Yale University in 1988.

In 1985, he won the Sports Car Club of American National Championship, GT1 Class and Road Atlanta.

Newman and Woodward have waged an anti-drug campaign under the auspices of the Scott Newman Foundation, named for Newman's late son who died of a drug overdose.

Newman invested in the magazine The Nation in the mid-1990s. In 1997, he wrote an editorial for the magazine which parodied Senator Jesse Helms.

Newman's Own has a website at www.newmansown.com

Received the William J German human relations award presented by the American Jewish Committee.