Top 48 Scofield Quotes
#1. Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes.
Wentworth Miller
#2. 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
#3. I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.
Charles Dance
#4. In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.
Wentworth Miller
#5. Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.
John Scofield
#6. If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?
Sandra Scofield
#7. I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.
John Scofield
#8. It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error.
John Scofield
#9. We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.
John Scofield
#10. Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.
C.I. Scofield
#11. If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul Scofield
#13. What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.
Paul Scofield
#14. I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.
John Scofield
#15. Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.
Paul Scofield
#16. I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.
Paul Scofield
#17. You know, we spend so much of our lives not saying the things we want to say. The things we should say. We speak in code, we send little messages. Origami. So now, plainly, simply. I want to say that I love you both.
Michael Scofield
#18. Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.
Paul Scofield
#20. Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.
John Scofield
#21. The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.
Paul Scofield
#22. As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; 4:24,25). The point of testing is no longer legal obedience as the condition of salvation, but acceptance or rejection of Christ, with good works as a fruit of salvation ...
C.I. Scofield
#23. It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting.
John Scofield
#24. 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
#25. A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.
Paul Scofield
#26. In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love.
C.I. Scofield
#27. I find that in letters you can make things whatever you wish them to be.
Sandra Scofield
#28. When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.
John Scofield
#29. Jesus might not think so, but maybe the dead are best left that way.
Chris Scofield
#30. Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing ...
John Scofield
#31. It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.
John Scofield
#32. 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
#33. The Word of truth teaches in the clearest and most positive terms that all of the dead will be raised. No doctrine of the faith rests upon a more literal and emphatic body of Scripture authority than this, nor is any more vital to Christianity.
C.I. Scofield
#34. The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.
John Scofield
#35. 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
#36. I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
John Scofield
#37. When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
John Scofield
#38. The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments on a 45-minute set.
John Scofield
#39. Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith
Michael Scofield
#40. The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.
John Scofield
#42. 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
#44. The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.
C.I. Scofield
#45. As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.
Paul Scofield
#46. We are not beginners forever, but we never stop learning.
Sandra Scofield
#47. 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
#48. Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.
Paul Scofield
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