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Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me.
— Tom Stoppard
Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
— Tom Stoppard
I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.
— Tom Stoppard
Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
— Tom Stoppard
Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.
— Tom Stoppard
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
— Tom Stoppard
Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.
— Tom Stoppard
Don't clap too loudly - it's a very old world.
— Tom Stoppard
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.
— Tom Stoppard
'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.
— Tom Stoppard
Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.
— Tom Stoppard
No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death.
— Tom Stoppard
It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
— Tom Stoppard
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My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'
— Tom Stoppard
One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.
— Tom Stoppard
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
— Tom Stoppard
Plays ... Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
— Tom Stoppard
Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
— Tom Stoppard
It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
— Tom Stoppard
Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.
— 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.
— Tom Stoppard
I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.
— Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard has said that the trouble with bad art is that the artist knows exactly what he's doing.)
— Clive James
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
What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
— Tom Stoppard
There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.
— Tom Stoppard
I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.
— Tom Stoppard
I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.
— Adelaide Clemens
The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.
— Tom Stoppard
People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.
— Tom Stoppard
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
— Tom Stoppard
You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
— Tom Stoppard
One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.
— Tom Stoppard
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.
— Tom Stoppard
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
— Tom Stoppard
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
— Tom Stoppard
Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.
— Tom Stoppard
Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
— Tom Stoppard
I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.
— Tom Stoppard
Your opinions are your symptoms.
— Tom Stoppard
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
— Tom Stoppard
Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.
— Tom Stoppard
Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers ... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
— Tom Stoppard
It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
— Tom Stoppard
I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
— 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
Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays.
— Terry Teachout
It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
— Ed Stoppard
People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.
— Tom Stoppard
Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
— Tom Stoppard
Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope.
— Tom Stoppard
Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.
— Tom Stoppard
(Words) deserve respect. Get the right ones in the right order, and you can nudge the world a little.
— Tom Stoppard
If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
— Tom Stoppard
Well, we'll know better next time.
— Tom Stoppard
Can't you function unless you're losing?
— Tom Stoppard
I don't draw on my inner life in my work.
— Tom Stoppard
Words, words. They're all we have to go on.
— Tom Stoppard
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
— Tom Stoppard
