People Like To Do What

It's Absolutely Amazing That I Survived All The Booze And Smoking And The Cars And The Career.

I'm A Very Competitive Person. I Always Have Been. And It's Hard To Be Competitive About Something As Amorphous As Acting. But You Can Be Competitive On The Track, Because The Rules Are Very Simple And The Declaration Of The Winner Is Very Concise.

It Wasn't As Though I Really Made A Commitment To It; There Wasn't Anything Else Around. So I Wasn't Driven To Become An Actor.. It Just Seemed To Be The Thing That I Managed To Do Best.

I Am Convinced That A Person Is Entitled To As Much Privacy As He Wants. It Should Be His Privilege To Keep Certain Areas Of His Life Out Of The Newspapers.

I Picture My Epitaph: 'here Lies Paul Newman, Who Died A Failure Because His Eyes Turned Brown.