Paul Newman Quotes

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

What's important to me is people just being people.

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

I dreamed my way into Lincoln and the details that moved me - his lack of education or 'civilized' manners and his deep connection to all humankind.

Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good man - a competent, capable, interesting and lovable man - when you're doing it for, or with, other people.

The belt will grow dust and sit on the mantelpiece, but it's not about the belt. It's about how I can be as a father, as a human being that matters to me.

I love to learn about people.

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot.

I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people and their disappointments, the stuff that they have to carry around and endure.

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's the way it will work for us all. Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

Let's all help each other be a little bit better at being human beings.

I think that a lot of times Mr. Peanutbutter is absolutely speaking directly to the audience and saying basic, human truths that we need to hear.

I enjoy learning about other people. I really didn't understand that until 'Moonlight.'

For a long time, I consciously tried to be a good person for others. Not anymore. Caring about other people keeps me in line, but I've decided to just be myself.

I like people. I like to speak to people, engage with people.