When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I… — 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
Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of… — 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
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. — 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 just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
