Frases de Paul Scofield

Paul Scofield, CBE foi um ator britânico que venceu o Oscar de melhor ator pelo filme O homem que não vendeu sua alma. Pouco amigo de cerimônias e de galas de prêmios, Scofield ficou em Inglaterra e limitou-se a beber uma taça de champanhe em casa, na companhia da mulher e de um casal amigo. A estatueta foi recebida pela sua colega de elenco Wendy Hiller.

Também venceu o Tony Award. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Janeiro 1922 – 19. Março 2008
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Paul Scofield: Frases em inglês

“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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

Quoted in Benedict Nightingale, "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86," The New York 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.”

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

“Privacy is not negotiable.”

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.”

On being told that he had won an Oscar for Best Actor (1967)
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.”

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