The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man Quotes

“For someone as controlled as I am, to experience the delight, the luxury, of being out of control, not to have an inkling of what’s around the next corner and to keep yourself constantly at risk, is simply pleasurable.”
― Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

“I never enjoyed acting, never enjoyed going out there and doing it. I enjoyed all the preliminary work-the detail, the observation, putting things together. Every once in a while I'd do a scene that might come together in some unusual way and I would be astonished. But that was a tiny percentage of the time I actually spent doing it.”
― Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

“I wish I could do lots of things, but I can’t—and that doesn’t make me a bad person.”
― Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

“You can read about private jets and red carpets elsewhere. This is definitely not that.”
― Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir