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March 2008, 17:41 GMT In quotes: Tributes to Paul Scofield
Friends and colleagues have been paying tribute to renowned
actor Paul Scofield, who has died aged 86.   It was said that to
see Edmund Kean act was like reading Shakespeare by flashes of
lightning.  Paul Scofield's acting brings to mind Shakespeare's
Rosalind on how many fathoms deep she is in love: "It cannot be
sounded. (It) hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal."
He was a man of wit, charm and grace; and quite extraordinarily
modest He brought you face to face with the unfathomable. No
actor summoned with such authority the mysterious depths of
human experience.    He was a man of wit, charm and grace; and
quite extraordinarily modest. He was revered by all other
actors, and his amazing voice was the subject of numerous
imitations.  I asked him two or three times to come to the
National again. A year or so ago, he was tempted, for about a
week, to say yes to Oedipus at Col