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Paul Scofield
11 quotes
“If you want a title, what's wrong with Mr? If you have always been that, then why lose your title? I have a title, which is the same one that I have always had. But it's not political. I have a CBE, which I accepted very gratefully.”
Paul Scofield (1922–2008) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paul Scofield: Man for all seasons", BBC News (30 December 2000)
“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 (1922–2008) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Garry O'Connor, Paul Scofield: An Actor for All Seasons (Applause Books, 2002, ), ch. 22 (p. 131)
“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 (1922–2008) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Royah Nikkhah, "Scofield's Lear voted the greatest Shakespeare performance", Telegraph.co.uk (22 August 2004)
“As an actor I don't admit to any limitations. In rehearsal one comes up against apparently insuperable barriers, but if one can imaginatively get past them, overreach one's natural reach, it is astonishing how elastic one can become. I've got to go not so far as I can, but as far as is needed. It's up to somebody else to say if I've made a fool of myself.”
Paul Scofield (1922–2008) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Lyn Gardner, Obituary: Paul Scofield, The Guardian (20 March 2008)
“Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.”
Paul Scofield (1922–2008) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being told that he had won an Oscar for Best Actor (1967)
“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 (1922–2008) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Benedict Nightingale, "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86", The New York Times (21 March 2008)
“As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.”
Paul Scofield (1922–2008) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Benedict Nightingale, "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86," The New York Times (21 March 2008)
“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 (1922–2008) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Alan Strachan, "Paul Scofield: Oscar-winning actor whose phenomenal range was unmatched in his generation", The Independent (21 March 2008)
“Privacy is not negotiable.”
Paul Scofield (1922–2008) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dennis McLellan, "Obituary: Paul Scofield, 86; award- winning British actor", The Los Angeles Times (21 March 2008)
“I feel incredibly lucky to have discovered early in my life, practically when I was a child, that I could do something that in the end I finally wanted to do all my life. It has something to do with being completely removed from oneself, which doesn't necessarily mean one is uncomfortable inside oneself. It just means it's a great relief to be inhabiting somebody else. It can be a tremendously liberating sensation.”
Paul Scofield (1922–2008) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dennis McLellan, "Obituary: Paul Scofield, 86; award-winning British actor," The Los Angeles Times (21 March 2008)
“I've found that an actor's work has life and interest only in its execution. It seems to wither away in discussion and becomes emptily theoretical and insubstantial. It has no rules except perhaps audibility. With every play and every playwright the actor starts from scratch as if he or she knows nothing and proceeds to learn afresh every time, growing with the relationships of the characters and insights of the writer. When the play has finished its run the actor is empty until the next time...and it is the emptiness which is, I find, apparent in any discussion of theatre work.”
Paul Scofield (1922–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source