Me Quotes by Tom Stoppard

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

— Tom Stoppard

I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.

— Tom Stoppard

Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me.

— Tom Stoppard

In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.

— Tom Stoppard

Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.

— Tom Stoppard

I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.

— Tom Stoppard

For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the…

— 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

If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm…

— Tom Stoppard

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

— Tom Stoppard

I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to…

— Tom Stoppard

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an…

— Tom Stoppard

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

— Tom Stoppard

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me…

— 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

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

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest…

— Tom Stoppard