Chalice Quotes

I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, The Silver Chalice (1954) and now I`m playing a crusty old man who`s an animated automobile (in Cars (2006)). That`s a creative arc for you isn`t it?.

After the success of "Picnic", I had a lot of offers from Hollywood and I never accepted any of them. Finally, my agent said `you know, they`re going to keep knocking on your door and knocking on your door and at some point they`re going to stop. So you better make sure you say *yes* before that stop occurs.` That was when somebody sent me a copy of "The Silver Chalice" and I got talked into it. I knew that was going to be a bomb." - explaining why he chose to do "The Silver Chalice.

That I survived the first film I did (The Silver Chalice (1954)) was extraordinarily good fortune. I mean, I had dogs chasing me down the street. I was wearing this tiny little Greek cocktail dress - with *my* legs! Good Lord, it was really bad. In fact, it was the worst film made in the 1950s. My first review said that `Mr. Newman delivers his lines with the emotional fervor of a Putnam stop conductor announcing local stop`.

(on Jack Palance) I must say Jack Palance was a drag. We were together in "The Silver Chalice." The way he did his work was strange. He was a weird actor and I didn`t like working with him at all.