(As if the kiddo needed another reason to think Paul Newman was the end-all-be-all):
by Playwright Eve Ensler, on actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
Reader's Digest
December, 2008
"Here's what Paul Newman and (his wife) Joanne Woodward gave me and, I suspect, many others in the world: the gift of confidence.
"They were the perfect parents. I was 23. I was depressed and fragile and hardly here in this world. I was writing as a way of survival. They took me under their wing. They pushed me and fed me and criticized my scripts with red pencils. They nurtured me and encouraged me to be funny, to always be funny. Mainly, they believed in me. Because of this, I came to believe in myself.
"They never asked for credit. They did not hold on after I had found myself. They did not curtail my independence. They reappeared at crucial moments in my life in the many years that followed. They were always in my corner.
"Here's what they taught me: generosity. They taught me that if you have or make money, you are not special, just lucky. They taught me to never make people beg or jump through hoops, because that implies you have a hoop. You do not have a hoop; you have money.
"They taught me that the only real happiness comes from giving. And because the two of them lived everything they spoke, they taught me about integrity.
"I can't imagine this world without Paul Newman. But I know his generosity, his gift of confidence, lives in many of us, and if there is a way to appreciate him, it is in giving deeper and deeper."
2 comments:
I KNEW I loved me some Paul Newman for a reason! You know, I really think that is one of the reasons he does (did) look so good to me-he was also a good person, which goes further (farther?) than looks. They just don't make movie stars like him nowadays. Thanks, this made me smile :)
Who has two thumbs and loves Paul Newman? THIS GIRL (thumbs pointing at me)
Great post
And funny, that my word verication is sting...
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