Paul Scofield Quotes

• The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

  Paul Scofield

  Theatre, Directors, Actors

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• As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.

  Paul Scofield

  Risk, Nervous, Bigger

  "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86" by Benedict Nightingale, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 2008.

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• Privacy is not negotiable.

  Paul Scofield

  Privacy

  "British actor had a passion for the stage" by Dennis McLellan, articles.latimes.com. March 21, 2008.

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• I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.

  Paul Scofield

  Stars, Thinking, Ideas

  "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86" by Benedict Nightingale, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 2008.

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• I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

  Paul Scofield

  Acting, Want, Kind

  "Paul Scofield: An Actor for All Seasons". Book by Garry O'Connor (Chapter 22, p. 131), 2002.

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• Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.

  Paul Scofield

  Couple, Wife, Bottles

  "Paul Scofield, Commanding Actor of the British Stage, Is Dead at 86" by Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. March 20, 2008.

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• King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare - or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't contain as many elements of humanity as we see in Lear.

  Paul Scofield

  Kings, Play, Humanity

  "Scofield's Lear voted the greatest Shakespeare performance". Royah Nikkhah, The Telegraph, August 22, 2004.

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• I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

  Paul Scofield

  Add, Taste In Music, Fairness

  "Fictional character: Thomas More". "A Man for All Seasons", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.

  Paul Scofield

  Kings, Self, Gone

  "Paul Scofield: Oscar-winning actor whose phenomenal range was unmatched in his generation" by Alan Strachan, www.independent.co.uk. March 21, 2008.

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• A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

  Paul Scofield

  Book, Appreciate, Cash

  "Fictional character: Colonel Franz Von Waldheim". "The Train", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

  Paul Scofield

  Cheating, Comic, Quiz

  "Fictional character: Mark Van Doren". "Quiz Show", www.imdb.com. September 23, 1994.

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