Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Thursday, July 21, 2022 – Paul Newman
“I had no natural gift to be anything — not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches — not anything. So I’ve worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.”
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“Study your craft and know who you are and what’s special about you. Find out what everyone does on a film set, ask questions and listen. Make sure you live life, which means don’t do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.”
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“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”
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“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”
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“Newman’s first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.”
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“Newman’s second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.”
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“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.”
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“Every time I get a script it’s a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It’s like falling in love. You can’t give a reason why.”
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“The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.”
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“You gotta have two things to win. You gotta have brains and you gotta have balls. Now, you got too much of one and not enough of the other.” Paul Newman as Eddie Felson, The Color of Money, 1986
Wikipedia Page: Paul Newman
