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 c…

- Paul Scofield

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

- Paul Scofield

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

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

- Paul Scofield

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 im…

- Paul Scofield

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

- Paul Scofield

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

- Paul Scofield

Privacy is not negotiable.

- Paul Scofield

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