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“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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Quoted in Alan Strachan, "Paul Scofield: Oscar-winning actor whose phenomenal range was unmatched in his generation" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/paul-scofield-oscarwinning-actor-whose-phenomenal-range-was-unmatched-in-his-generation-798984.html, The Independent (2008-03-21)

“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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Quoted in Benedict Nightingale, "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/movies/21scofield.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin, The New York Times (2008-03-21)

“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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Quoted in Royah Nikkhah, "Scofield's Lear voted the greatest Shakespeare performance" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/22/nbard22.xml, Telegraph.co.uk (2004-08-22)

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

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Quoted in Benedict Nightingale, "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86," The New York Times (2008-03-21)

“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.”

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Dennis McLellan, "Obituary: Paul Scofield, 86; award-winning British actor," The Los Angeles Times (2008-03-21)

“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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Quoted in Garry O'Connor, Paul Scofield: An Actor for All Seasons (Applause Books, 2002, ISBN 1-557-83499-7), ch. 22 (p. 131)

“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.”

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On his refusal of a knighthood. <br class="br"> "Paul Scofield: Man for all seasons" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1092962.stm, BBC News (2000-12-30)

“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.”

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Quoted in Lyn Gardner, Obituary: Paul Scofield http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/obituary/0,,2266899,00.html, The Guardian (2008-03-20)

“Privacy is not negotiable.”

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Dennis McLellan, "Obituary: Paul Scofield, 86; award- winning British actor" http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-scofield21mar21,1,977642.story, The Los Angeles Times (2008-03-21)

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

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On being told that he had won an Oscar for Best Actor (1967) <br class="br">Quoted in Robert Simonson, "Paul Scofield, Commanding Actor of the British Stage, Is Dead at 86" http://www.playbill.com/news/article/116080.html, Playbill (2008-03-20)

“Beneath the gentle modesty of his behavior lay the absolute assurance of a born artist.”

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Peter Brook, Threads of Time: Recollections (Basic Books, 1998, ISBN 1582430187), p. 29