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.

In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.'

Tom Stoppard

I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured.

I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured.

Tom Stoppard

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

Tom Stoppard

A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.

A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.

Tom Stoppard

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

Tom Stoppard

I feel overestimated.

I feel overestimated.

Tom Stoppard

I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel.

I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel.

Tom Stoppard

I'm good at being funny.

I'm good at being funny.

Tom Stoppard

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

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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