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.

One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.

One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.

Tom Stoppard

Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

Tom Stoppard

I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about.

I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about.

Tom Stoppard

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

Tom Stoppard

You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK.

You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK.

Tom Stoppard

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Tom Stoppard

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Tom Stoppard

Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.

Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.

Tom Stoppard

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Tom Stoppard

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

Tom Stoppard

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