Paul Scofield famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Theatre #Actors #Directors
As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.
-- Paul Scofield

#Risk #Nervous #Bigger
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
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
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
King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare â€” 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
I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.
-- Paul Scofield

#Taste In Music #Add #Fairness
Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.
-- Paul Scofield

#Cheating #Comic #Quiz
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
Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.
-- Paul Scofield

#Couple #Wife #Bottles
Privacy is not negotiable.
-- Paul Scofield

#Privacy

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