Hollywood icon Paul Newman to retire from acting
LOS ANGELES, May 26 (Reuters) Paul Newman's career has included winning an Oscar, establishing a food company to fund charities, and operating a restaurant, but he said this week he is retiring from acting.
''I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level that I would want to,'' the 82-year-old Hollywood star told ABC News in an interview released on its Web site on Friday.
''You start to lose you memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So I think that's pretty much a closed book for me,'' he said.
Newman
brought
a
memorable
series
of
rough,
charming
and
roguish
characters
to
the
screen
like
the
alcoholic
Brick
in
''Cat
on
a
Hot
Tin
Roof,''
the
quirky
''Cool
Hand
Luke,''
the
suave
con
man
in
''The
Sting''
and
the
dissolute
title
character
of
''Hud.''
He
earned
nine
Academy
Award
acting
nominations
but
his
only
win
was
for
best
actor
in
''The
Color
of
Money''
in
1987
as
the
same
pool
shark
he
had
played
when
he
was
nominated
in
1962
for
''The
Hustler.''
One
of
his
biggest
financial
hits
came
in
1969
with
''Butch
Cassidy
and
the
Sundance
Kid,''
a
tongue-in-cheek
Western
that
paired
Newman
with
Robert
Redford.
The
two
teamed
up
again
in
1973
as
con
men
in
''The
Sting.''
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