Memorable Quotations:

• "Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool." --as Eddie Felson in THE HUSTLER.
• "I'm shootin' pool, Fats. When I miss, you can shoot." --as Fast Eddie in THE HUSTLER.
• "Everybody! Everybody wants a piece of me!" --as Fast Eddie in THE HUSTLER.
• "How in hell do you imagine you're going to have a child by a man that can't stand you?" --as Brick Pollitt in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF.
• "I admire his manners and I admire the speeches he makes and I admire the big house he lives in. But if you're saving it all for him honey, you've got your account in the wrong bank!" --as Ben Quick in THE LONG, HOT SUMMER (1958).
• "Well, ya know, 'could be worse." --as Butch Cassidy in BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID.
• "Boy, I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals." --as Butch Cassidy in BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID.
• "Calling it your job don't make it right, Boss." --as Luke Jackson in COOL HAND LUKE (1967).
• "I am hurrying. It just looks like slow motion." --as Sully in NOBODY'S FOOL (1994).
• "Mistakes, you know.  We all make 'em, God knows." --as John Rooney in ROAD TO PERDITION (2002).
• "Natural law -- sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers." --as John Rooney in ROAD TO PERDITION (2002).

Further Reading:

• Paul Newman : a biography by Eric Lax (Atlanta, GA: Turner Pub., c1996).
• No tricks in my pocket : Paul Newman directs by Stewart Stern (New York: Grove Press, 1989).
• Paul Newman by J.C. Landry (New York: McGraw-Hill, c1983).
• The films of Paul Newman by Lawrence J. Quirk (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, c1981).
• Paul Newman, superstar: a critical biography by Lionel Godfrey (New York: St. Martin's Press, c1978).
• The films of Paul Newman by Kenneth Thompson (Bembridge: BCW Publishing, 1977).
• Paul Newman by Charles Hamblett (London: W. H. Allen, 1975).
• Lovers: great romances of our time through the eyes of legendary writers by John Miller and Aaron Kenedi (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1999).

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