Quotes from Paul Scofield

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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