Quotes by Paul Scofield

• 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.
• What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.
• 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.
• A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.
• Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.
• I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.