Tom Stoppard Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.
If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute ...
Gallons of ink and miles of typewriter ribbon expended on the misery of the unrequited lover; not a word about the utter tedium of the unrequiting.
One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.
He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.
I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
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.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
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.
I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.
I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.
I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.
Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.
'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said
no. But somehow we missed it.
no. But somehow we missed it.
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.