Top 275 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

About Tom Stoppard

These are some quotes by English author Tom Stoppard Dramatist, who was born on July 3, 1937.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

Tom Stoppard

I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.

I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.

Tom Stoppard

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Tom Stoppard

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.

Tom Stoppard

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

Tom Stoppard

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.

Tom Stoppard

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

Tom Stoppard

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

Tom Stoppard

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

Tom Stoppard

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.

Tom Stoppard

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