Tom Stoppard quotes - page 6

Tom Stoppard is a British playwright and screenwriter, acclaimed for his inventive use of language and complex themes. His works, such as "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and "Arcadia," have had a significant impact on modern theater. He is renowned for blending wit, philosophy, and humor in his writing. Here are 209 of his quotes:

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead. (Tom Stoppard)

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

Tom Stoppard

Death is the ultimate negative.

Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind?... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

Tom Stoppard

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Tom Stoppard

Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame.

Tom Stoppard

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

Tom Stoppard

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

Tom Stoppard

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

Tom Stoppard

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

Tom Stoppard

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. (Tom Stoppard)

It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.

Tom Stoppard

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Tom Stoppard

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

Tom Stoppard

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.

Tom Stoppard

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

Tom Stoppard

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

Tom Stoppard

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

Tom Stoppard

I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

Tom Stoppard

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

Tom Stoppard

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. (Tom Stoppard)

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

Tom Stoppard

I burn with no causes.

Tom Stoppard

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

Tom Stoppard

I take every possible side.

Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard

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Occupation: English Dramatist
Born: July 3, 1937
Quotes count: 209
Wikipedia: Tom Stoppard

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