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

— Paul Scofield On being told that he had won an Oscar for Best Actor (1967)

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Quoted in Robert Simonson, "Paul Scofield, Commanding Actor of the British Stage, Is Dead at 86", Playbill (20 March 2008)

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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.

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

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.

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.

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