I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um… — 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
I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Sometimes people are so close to the material, they miss an important cross-reference. You can't drop this line because half an hour… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The way 'star' used to be reserved for a small number of people, and when the star category became so vast, they… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after… — 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
