Paul Scofield quotes
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“The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.”
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“As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.”
-- Paul ScofieldSource : "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86" by Benedict Nightingale, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 2008.
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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 ScofieldSource : "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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“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 ScofieldSource : "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 ScofieldSource : "Paul Scofield: An Actor for All Seasons". Book by Garry O'Connor (Chapter 22, p. 131), 2002.
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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 ScofieldSource : "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 ScofieldSource : "Fictional character: Thomas More". "A Man for All Seasons", www.imdb.com. 1966.
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“Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.”
-- Paul ScofieldSource : "Fictional character: Mark Van Doren". "Quiz Show", www.imdb.com. September 23, 1994.
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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 ScofieldSource : "Fictional character: Colonel Franz Von Waldheim". "The Train", www.imdb.com. 1964.
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“Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.”
-- Paul ScofieldSource : "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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“Privacy is not negotiable.”
-- Paul ScofieldSource : "British actor had a passion for the stage" by Dennis McLellan, articles.latimes.com. March 21, 2008.
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