Being Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I'm good at being funny.

— Tom Stoppard

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

— Tom Stoppard

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

— Tom Stoppard

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

— Tom Stoppard

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?

— Tom Stoppard

I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.

— Tom Stoppard

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

— Tom Stoppard

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of…

— Tom Stoppard

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

— Tom Stoppard

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

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

— Tom Stoppard

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

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any…

— Tom Stoppard

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five…

— Tom Stoppard

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it…

— Tom Stoppard

When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was…

— Tom Stoppard

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I…

— Tom Stoppard