Paul Newman Quotes

I think many actresses want to be famous and want to be the prettiest, and that wasn't my trek. I was thinking, 'I gotta get out of here... how do I get out of here?' I like acting, but I like directing more.

I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.

I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.

I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

From that day on, I ran from spot to spot.

I had no intention of being an entertainer.

Running away from something doesn't do anything except put distance.

I am always running away from something.

I'm certainly never running away from the Seekers again.

I gave up my bread and butter to be an actress.

What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.

You should despair and run away.

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world -- I could have done anything, but I came back." "You ran away, Katarina." "And now I'm back." "You're still running.

Ruby, I lied before. I would have run. —CG

I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….

Are you running away from something?

I didn't originally want to be an actor. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

You can run from some problems, but then you get caught up in others.

We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.