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When a role is right for him, he’s peerless. Newman is most comfortable in a role when it isn’t scaled heroically; even when he plays a bastard, he’s not a big bastard — only a callow, selfish one, like Hud. He can play what he’s not — a dumb lout. But you don’t believe it when he plays someone perverse or vicious, and the older he gets and the better you know him, the less you believe it. His likableness is infectious; nobody should ever be asked not to like Paul Newman. —critic Pauline Kael, 1977
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Brick: I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to! Now, you keep forgetting the conditions on which I agreed to stay on living with you.
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According to director George Roy Hill, during filming, a stuntman balked at some of the bicycle tricks he was asked to perform. Just then, Newman himself went rolling by, balanced on one foot on the bicycles seat. Hill turned to the stuntman and said, “You’re fired.” A huge hit, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid grossed more than $100 million and won four Academy Awards. Newman always regretted that the outlaws died in the end making a sequel problematical. “Those two guys,” he said, “could have gone on forever.”
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