I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal. — 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
I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. — 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
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“The ‘role of the theatre’ is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring… — 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
I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not...… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach… — 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
