I enjoyed all the preliminary work-the detail, the observation, putting things together.

 “I never enjoyed acting, never enjoyed going out there and doing it. I enjoyed all the preliminary work-the detail, the observation, putting things together. Every once in a while I'd do a scene that might come together in some unusual way and I would be astonished. But that was a tiny percentage of the time I actually spent doing it.”
― Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir