Paul Scofield Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Privacy is not negotiable.

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

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#6. 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.

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

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#8. If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

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#9. What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

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

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

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#12. Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

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