Paul Newman Acting Quotations

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

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.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.