“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.”

— Paul Scofield

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

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English actor 1922–2008

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