There are two Newman’s laws. The first one is “It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.” The second is “Just when things look darkest, they go black.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

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.

So you wound up with Apollo. If he’s sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.

If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.

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

Newman’s first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.

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...

You can’t be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ‘Holy Christ, whaddya know – I’m still around!’ It’s absolutely amazing that I survived all...

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

I’m a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many...

Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

You only grow when you are alone.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

Who’s to say who’s an expert?

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

Newman’s second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to...

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.