Quotes by Tom Stoppard

About Tom Stoppard:

Sir Tom Stoppard is a British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil, The Russia House, and Shakespeare in Love, and has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation.
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I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.

Tom Stoppard

I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.

Tom Stoppard

In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like.

Tom Stoppard

I like the notion of theater as recreational.

Tom Stoppard

I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers.

Tom Stoppard

I can't remember what my first script was.

Tom Stoppard

I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.

Tom Stoppard

I always loved rock 'n' roll.

Tom Stoppard

I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes.

Tom Stoppard

Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something.

Tom Stoppard

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

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

Tom Stoppard

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

Tom Stoppard

I take every possible side.

Tom Stoppard

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

Tom Stoppard

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

Tom Stoppard

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

Tom Stoppard

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.

Tom Stoppard

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

Tom Stoppard

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

Tom Stoppard

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tom Stoppard

Author Bio

  • NameTom Stoppard
  • DescriptionBritish playwright
  • BornJuly 3, 1937
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Screenwriter; Journalist; Writer
  • AwardsLaurence Olivier Award; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; PEN Pinter Prize; Laurel Award For Screenwriting Achievement; Academy Award For Best Writing (Original Screenplay); Writers Guild Of America Award; Praemium Imperiale