Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
“What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
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 Copy Share
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
