Great Quotes from Paul Newman's Characters

[TomClash]

"Hey... . I can't be the father and the godfather. You got to goddamn do something." - Nobody's Fool (1994)

"Maybe I'm not such a high-class piece of property right now. But that twenty-five percent slice of somethin' big is better than a hundred percent slice of nothin'." The Hustler (1961)

"Dyin'? Boy, he can have this little life any time he wants to. Do ya hear that? Are ya hearin' it? Come on. You're welcome to it, ol' timer. Let me know you're up there. Come on. Love me, hate me, kill me, anything. Just let me know it." Cool Hand Luke (1967)

"I have vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals." Butch Cassidy and hte Sundance Kid (1969)

"You know, so much of the time we're just lost. We say, "Please, God, tell us what is right; tell us what is true." And there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time, we become dead... a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims... and we become victims. We become... we become weak. We doubt ourselves, we doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law. But today you are the law. You ARE the law. Not some book... not the lawyers... not the, a marble statue... or the trappings of the court. See those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are... they are, in fact, a prayer: a fervent and a frightened prayer. In my religion, they say, "Act as if ye had faith... and faith will be given to you." IF... if we are to have faith in justice, we need only to believe in ourselves. And ACT with justice. See, I believe there is justice in our hearts." - The Verdict (1982)

"Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion." The Glass Menagerie (1987)

"What men do after work is what made us rich. No need to screw them at work as well." Road to Perdition (1998)

[petronius]

1. "You don't look out for yourself, the only helping hand you'll ever get is when they lower the box"

Hud (1963)