Paul Newman Net Worth

Paul Newman's Quotes

• [responding to an interviewer's question as to why he was never "tempted" by the many beautiful Hollywood actresses he worked with] Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?
• [in response to radio interviewer who asked if he would co-star with Robert Redford in a sequel to Indecent Proposal (1993)] Like a rocket! I'd shack up with anyone for a million dollars. I'd shack up with a gorilla for a million, plus 10%.
• [1974, on the success of his collaborations with wife Joanne Woodward] You should see us when we get back to the bedroom.
• [1982] Acting is like letting your pants down - you're exposed.
• The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

Interesting Facts about Paul Newman

1. Chosen by Empire magazine as #12 in the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history. [1995]
2. Said that he burned his tuxedo on his 75th birthday because he was through with formality.
3. Said the sound he loved most is that of a V-8 engine.
4. Owned the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a summer camp for children with cancer and other blood-related diseases (and their siblings) in Ashford, Connecticut, and also ran a fall "Discovery" program for inner city kids, also in Ashford.
5. Ranked #19 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
6. Lived in Westport, Connecticut and was known to race at the Lime Rock Road Circuit.
7. Had his own line of food products, "Newman's Own", featuring mainly spaghetti sauces and salad dressings. The company made more than $100 million in profits over the years, all of which he donated to various charities.
8. Had three daughters with Joanne Woodward: actress Melissa Newman, Nell Potts and Claire Newman.
9. Had a son and two girls with his first wife Jacqueline "Jackie" Witte. His only son, Scott Newman, died of a drug overdose in 1978. Daughter, Susan Kendall Newman, is well known for stage acting and her philanthropic activities. His other daughter from his first marriage is named Stephanie and was born in 1954.
10. Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1990).
11. He was the visual inspiration for the illustrations of superhero Green Lantern/Hal Jordan (when the character was reintroduced in 1959). Newman was 34 years old at the time.
12. Finished second in the 1979 Le Mans 24-hour race in a Porsche 935.
13. In June 2002, Newman returned to live theater for the first time in 35 years in Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" at the Westport Country Playhouse near his Connecticut home. He directed and starred as the Stage Manager. His wife, Joanne Woodward, was the Playhouse's then-Artistic Director. He opened a restaurant called "Dressing Room", with co-owner and chef Michael Nischan, in Westport to help subsidize the Playhouse, which is next door.
14. He was among the celebrities on the famous "Enemies List" kept by President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
15. Was training to be a pilot while in the United States Navy, but was discovered to be colorblind, ending his flying aspirations.
16. Was mentioned in La dolce vita (1960), in a discussion about salaries paid to film stars.
17. Within a space of five months in 2003, he was nominated for an Oscar (for Road to Perdition (2002)), a Tony (for "Our Town") and an Emmy (for Our Town (2003)).
18. Although he played the lead male roles in the original productions of three Broadway classics near the beginning of his career - "The Desperate Hours", "Picnic" and "Sweet Bird of Youth" - Newman did not receive a Tony Award nomination until 2003, when at age 78, he was nominated as Best Actor for his performance in the 2002 revival of the "Our Town".
19. His father was Ashkenazi Jewish. Paul's paternal grandparents were Simon Newman, from Hungary, and Hannah Cohn, from Poland. Paul's mother was from an ethnic Slovak family, and was born in Homonna, Pticie, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Stefan Fetsko and Mária Polenak. As an adult, while Paul was not religious, he described himself as Jewish because it's "more of a challenge".
20. He was voted the 13th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.