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.

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.

Tom Stoppard

I write out of my intellectual experience.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

Tom Stoppard

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Tom Stoppard

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

Tom Stoppard

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

Tom Stoppard

I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.

I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.

Tom Stoppard

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

Tom Stoppard

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

Tom Stoppard

Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.

Tom Stoppard

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.

Tom Stoppard

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