Paul Newman Quotes

I don't generally like to watch myself.

The hardest role that I've ever tried to play was Clara Johnson in 'Light in the Piazza' at Lincoln Center. It was the least fun I've ever had, but the most beautiful experience I've ever had. I could not understand her. I could not put my feet in her shoes. I came home every night, and I was depressed.

I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.

I don't have a problem doing interviews. It's not punishment. There's things about it that I don't like. No one else is really saying these kinds of things, so someone has to. I don't think that it's the most humbled thing to talk about yourself for hours and hours and hours.

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the Lord made clear His plans for me.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.