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.

Paul Scofield

#2. If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.

Rick Warren

#3. 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

#4. We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#5. You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

Albert Einstein

#6. The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. A soul that is transformed by principles exudes holiness and a sense of pureness that is beyond our imagination.

Garey Gordon

#8. 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

#9. Privacy is not negotiable.

Paul Scofield

#10. L I V E or E V I L
to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Paul Scofield

#12. The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#13. 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

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

Paul Scofield

#15. Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

Lisi Harrison

#16. I was training to be a lawyer ... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

Gerard Butler

#17. When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do.'

Michael Moriarty

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

Paul Scofield

#19. Wisdom comes to all of us when we open our hearts up to vulnerability.

Kyle Schmalenberg

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

Paul Scofield

#21. It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

Gregory Maguire

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

Paul Scofield

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

Paul Scofield

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

Paul Scofield

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

Paul Scofield

#26. As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

Dita Von Teese

#27. Happy talk must die

Steve Krug

#28. I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.

Jenna Bush

#29. 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

#30. I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.

Charles Dance

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

Paul Scofield

#32. My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

Magnus Carlsen