Paul Newman (55 page)

154: “If I were a dog” —Peter S. Greenberg,
“Playboy
Interview: Paul Newman,”
Playboy
, April 1983.

154: “John Foreman” —Ibid.

154: “I know that I can function” —Donna Chernin, “Paul Newman,”
Cleveland
Plain Dealer
, July 4, 1976.

154: “I am beginning to get sick” —Roddy McDowall,
Double Exposure
(New York: William Morrow & Co., 1990), p. 190.

154: “It isn’t” —Chernin, “Newman.”

154: “I’m glad” —McDowall,
Double Exposure
, p. 188.

156: “In order to be an actor” —Greenberg,
“Playboy
Interview.”

156: “There’s nothing” —Fred A. Bernstein, “Paul Newman,”
People
, March 19, 1984.

157: “I’ve seen fan-magazine” —Roy Newquist,
“Playboy
Interview: Paul Newman,”
Playboy
, July 1968.

162: “He’s got the reputation” —Grover Lewis, “The Redoubtable Mr. Newman,”
Rolling Stone
, July 5, 1973.

162: “came to me one morning” —Muriel Davidson, “Joanne Woodward Tells All about Paul Newman,”
Good Housekeeping
, February 1969.

163: “I could have directed” —Foster Hirsch,
Otto Preminger: The Man Who
Would Be King
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), p. 332.

163: “Israelis are movie mad” —Ninette Lyon, “Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman: A Second Fame: Good Food,”
Vogue
, August 1965.

163: “They stand in front” —Roddy McDowall,
Double Exposure
(New York: William Morrow & Co., 1990), p. 190.

164: “The day we left” —Louella O. Parsons, “Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman: A Parisian Idyll,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, August 27, 1961.

164: “I suppose” —Gabriel Miller,
The Films of Martin Ritt
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995), p. 51.

167: “I think Robert Rossen” —Graham Fuller, “The Outsider as Insider,”
Interview
, March 1998.

168: “I spent the first thirty” —Kitty Hanson, “Stranger in Hollywood,”
New
York Daily News
, April 4, 5, 6, 1962.

168: “I told Rossen” —Lewis, “Redoubtable.”

172: “My husband behaved” —Davidson, “Woodward Tells All.”

179: “I have steak” —Roy Newquist,
“Playboy
Interview: Paul Newman,”
Playboy
, July 1968.

179: “She’s like a classy” —Maureen Dowd, “Testing Himself,”
New York Times
Magazine
, September 28, 1986.

179: “He’s an oddity” —Davidson, “Woodward Tells All.”

179: “Paul has a sense” —John Skow, “Verdict on a Superstar,”
Time
, December 6, 1982.

179:“They’re peculiar” —Hanson, “Stranger.”

180: “We haven’t had to be” —Newquist,
“Playboy
Interview.”

180: “For quite a while” —Davidson, “Woodward Tells All.”

181: “I love it” —Patrick Goldstein, “Mel Shavelson: Hollywood from a Front-Row Seat,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 1, 2007.

181: “I read it” —Aaron Latham, “Paul Newman Takes the Stand,”
Rolling
Stone
, January 20, 1983.

184: “I got a lot of letters” —Gabriel Miller, ed.,
Martin Ritt Interviews
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002), p. 66.

186: “Because I am a motion picture personality” —“Newman ‘Won’t Abdicate’ Citizen’s ‘Responsibility’ to Safeguard Career,”
Variety
, June 21, 1963.

186: “We would like to hope” —“Four Actors Rebuffed in Alabama Deny ‘Rabble-Rousing’ Charges,”
New York Times
, August 24, 1963.

188: “Lee was so happy” —Foster Hirsch,
A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1984), p. 280.

188: “Paul bent over” —“Cool Hand Paul,”
Time
, January 23, 1967.

191: “I tried brown” —Jeff Dawson, “Paul Newman Begins to See His Legacy,”
Daily Breeze
, June 5, 1998.

192: “She threw her sable” —Tom Burke, “Paul Newman,”
Cosmopolitan
, January 1983.

193: “I said, ‘How are ya?’” —Roy Newquist,
“Playboy
Interview: Paul Newman,”
Playboy
, July 1968.

195: “The first day of production” —Donald Spoto,
The Dark Side of Genius:
The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
(New York: Little, Brown, 1983), p. 519.

196: “in a mood of quiet outrage” —Peter Bogdanovich, “Is That Ticking (Pause) a Bomb?”
New York Times
, April 11, 1999.

197: “He just lost his heart” —Spoto,
Dark Side
, p. 519.

197: “I always say” —Vincent Canby, “Hitchcock on Job Selling New Film,”
New York Times
, July 7, 1966.

198: “We had to wait hours” —Newquist,
“Playboy
Interview.”

200: “I seem to play” —Charles Champlin, “No Blinkers on This Private Eye,”
Los Angeles Times
, August 18, 1965.

201: “My father, my uncle” —Bob Thomas, “Paul Newman: His Life Story,”
Good Housekeeping
, May 1979.

201: “He got to be twenty-nine” —Robert Daley, “Paul Newman: How Turning 40 Changed His Marriage,”
Coronet
, October 1971.

202: “He’s forty-four” —
New York Times
, October 19, 1969.

205: “larger and more heavily built” —Jane Wilson, “Paul Newman: ‘What If My Eyes Turn Brown?’”
Saturday Evening Post
, February 24, 1968.

207: “We needed a place” —“The Factory,”
Time
, March 15, 1968.

208: “You can’t really appreciate” —Amy Longsdorf,
Allentown Morning Call
, April 9, 2000.

208: “When Paul is angry” —Thomas, “Life Story.”

209: “He is the most private” —John Skow, “Verdict on a Superstar,”
Time
, December 6, 1982.

209: “If you have success” —Bob Ivry, “Making It Look Easy,”
Bergen Record
, March 1, 1998.

209: “The thing I’ve never figured out” —Maureen Dowd, “Testing Himself,”
New York Times Magazine
, September 28, 1986.

211: “I got involved in it” —Michael Billington, “The Thinking Man’s Outdoor Hero,”
Times
[London], August 2, 1969.

212: “because of difficulty” —Pat McGilligan,
Backstory 2: Interviews with
Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), p. 301.

212: “I got total rejection” —Roger Ebert, “Newman’s Complaint,”
Esquire
, September 1969.

212: “I’m curious” —Wilson, “What If My Eyes.”

212: “He’s the only man” —Joan Barthel, “Paul Newman: How I Spent My Summer Vacation,”
New York Times
, October 22, 1967.

213: “There was some talk” —Billington, “Outdoor Hero.”

213: “I called them together” —Roy Newquist,
“Playboy
Interview: Paul Newman,”
Playboy
, July 1968.

214: “He’s sometimes stymied” —Wilson, “What If My Eyes.”

214: “My motto” —David Castell, “Why Paul Newman Is Still Hollywood’s Blue-Eyed Boy,”
Films Illustrated
, December 1972.

214: “We have the same acting” —Abe Greenberg, “Paul Newman Tells About His New Career,”
Hollywood Citizen-News
, November 4, 1967.

215: “Dede Allen” —McGilligan,
Backstory 2
, p. 301.

216: “Paul knew as much” —“George Kennedy (AKA Dragline) Dishes on Paul Newman in
Cool Hand Luke,” Entertainment Weekly
, September 30, 2008.

219: “Hey Paul” —Bob Thomas, “Paul Newman: His Life Story,”
Good Housekeeping
, May 1979.

220: “I’ve admired the man” —Roy Newquist,
“Playboy
Interview: Paul Newman,”
Playboy
, July 1968.

220: “I am not a public speaker” —E. W. Kenworthy, “Paul Newman Drawing Crowds in McCarthy Indiana Campaign,”
New York Times
, April 22, 1968.

221: “What did [the cop] think” —Roger Ebert, “Newman’s Complaint,”
Esquire
, September 1969.

223: “Now, listen, you queer” —Fred Kaplan,
Gore Vidal: A Biography
(New York: Doubleday, 1999), p. 602.

223: “I come wheeling” —Richard Weidman Oral History, Columbia University Oral History Research Collection.

224: “We blew the convention” —Ebert, “Complaint.”

224: “I’ve got sort of a short” —Ibid.

224: “I can barely” —Peter S. Greenberg,
“Playboy
Interview: Paul Newman,”
Playboy
, April 1983.

225: “He had a chance” —Thomas, “Life Story.”

226: “I had so much” —Joseph Bell, “Paul Newman: Activist and Pessimist,”
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
, December 7, 1969.

226: “I hope it’s successful” —Rex Reed, “The Doug and Mary of the Jet Age,”
New York Times
, September 1, 1968.

226: “Four critics walked out” —Ebert, “Complaint.”

226: “I couldn’t have been” —Mason Wiley and Damien Bona,
Inside Oscar: The
Unofficial History of the Academy Awards
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1987), p. 421.

233: “Suppose I liked it” —Tom Burke, “Redford: ‘I Like Fighters,’”
New York
Times
, October 26, 1969.

233: “Redford never intellectualizes” —Martha Weinman Lear, “Anatomy of a Sex Symbol,”
New York Times
, July 7, 1974.

237: “It’s a way to really” —Bell, “Activist and Pessimist.”

240: “I finally said to myself” —All Nancy Bacon quotes are from Bacon,
Stars in My Eyes…Stars in My Bed
(New York: Pinnacle, 1975), and from an interview by the author.

245: “There aren’t many” —Peter Bart, “Newman Fought for His Convictions,”
Variety
, September 29, 2008.

248: “‘You need twenty set-ups’” —Leonard Probst, “Talking with Paul Newman,”
Atlantic
, November 1975.

248: “I drank whiskey” —Peter S. Greenberg,
“Playboy
Interview: Paul Newman,”
Playboy
, April 1983.

249: “Those schmucks” —Shaun Considine, “The Effect of ‘Gamma Rays’ on the Newmans,”
After Dark
, March 1973.

250: “His face is so handsome” —Candice Bergen, “The Cool-Sex Boys,”
Vogue
, October 1971.

252: “Joanne
never
brings” —Lee Eisenberg, “Him with His Foot to the Floor,”
Esquire
, June 1988.

255: “My one great regret” —Bob Thomas, “Paul Newman: His Life Story,”
Good Housekeeping
, May 1979.

256: “Children like” —“The Paul Newmans’ Not-So-Perfect Marriage,”
McCall’s
, November 1980.

257: “I think that I experimented” —Gene Shalit, “Joanne & Paul: Their Lives Together and Apart,”
Ladies Home Journal
, July 1975.

258: “For chrissakes” —Ibid.

261: “The name didn’t register” —Jane Gross, “Paul Newman, Race Driver,”
New York Times
, July 2, 1979.

262: “It is dangerous” —Earl Wilson, “Paul Newman Just Loves Racing Cars,”
New York Post
, January 23, 1971.

263: “He drove it smoothly” —Sam Posey, “The Perils of Paul,”
Sports Illustrated
, August 25, 1980.

265: “I’m not a professional” —Brock Yates, “Cool Hand Luke Meets Luigi,”
Sports Illustrated
, October 7, 1974.

266: “There’s an awful strong sense” —Shawn Courchesne, “Newman Found Grace, Accomplishment at Wheel,”
Hartford Courant
, September 28, 2008.

269: “I always felt very” —Lawrence Grobel,
The Hustons: The Life and Times of a Hollywood Dynasty
(New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000), p. 643.

269: “among the gods” —John Huston,
An Open Book
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1981), p. 382.

269: “I was vaguely ashamed” —Grobel,
Hustons
, p. 662.

272: “I certainly don’t feel” —Aaron Latham, “Paul Newman Takes the Stand,”
Rolling Stone
, January 20, 1983.

273: “The trick was” —Jamie Malanowski, “Shaping Words into an Oscar: Six Writers Who Did,”
New York Times
, March 18, 2001.

275: “It was just dumb” —Abe Greenberg, “Paul Newman Tells About His New Career,”
Hollywood Citizen-News
, November 4, 1967.

281: “You go into the kitchen” —Leonard Probst, “Talking with Paul Newman,”
Atlantic
, November 1975.

283:
“Towering Inferno
was” —Clarke Taylor, “Paul Newman: Star on Ice,”
Cosmopolitan
, February 1977.

286: “he complains” —Marilyn Beck,
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, July 23, 1976.

291: “The thing that I’m concerned about” —Probst, “Talking.”

291: “My teeth hurt” —Gene Shalit, “Joanne & Paul: Their Lives Together and Apart,”
Ladies Home Journal
, July 1975.

292: “Neither of us” —Bob Thomas, “Paul Newman: His Life Story,”
Good
Housekeeping
, May 1979.

293: “Newman has something” —Sam Posey, “The Perils of Paul,”
Sports Illustrated
, August 25, 1980.

295: “They were insufferable” —Gordon Kirby, “Paul Newman: Talking Racing with the Academy Award–Winning Actor,”
Road & Track
, January 2005.

298: “Nell …also got into drugs”—“The Paul Newmans’ Not-So-Perfect Marriage,”
McCall’s
, November 1980.

299: “The terrific part” —Clarke Taylor, “Paul Newman: Star on Ice,”
Cosmopolitan
, February 1977.

300: “It was hard” —Vernon Scott, “For Paul Newman, It’s the Public That’s Tough,”
Los Angeles Daily News
, June 22, 1976.

300: “Isn’t the movie business” —Bob Thomas, “Paul Newman: His Life Story,”
Good Housekeeping
, May 1979.