On Monday night, Hollywood's brightest stars left the glamour of Hollywood and came out to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco to lend their support to the late legendary screen actor Paul Newman's children's charity, The Painted Turtle. ET has superstars Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks re-telling their favorite Newman stories at the star-studded event.

"We can talk about him as a movie star, an actor -- it's nothing compared to what he did as a man," Hanks tells ET about Newman. "He taught everybody in the spectrum of show business what you can do."

Watch the stars tell ET about the humanitarian behind those famous blue eyes. Just weeks after Newman's passing, Roberts and Hanks joined Rita Wilson, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Robin Wright Penn, Sean Penn, Jack Nicholson and many other celebs to perform a staged reading of The World of Nick Adams by Ernest Hemingway, and adapted for the stage by A.E. Hotchner. The Painted Turtle is part of Paul Newman's "Hole In The Wall California Camp" which benefits children suffering from life-threatening illnesses. Proceeds from the event go directly to the Painted Turtle Camp, as well as The Painted Turtle Outpost, which tries to create a similar "camp" experience at local California hospitals.