Tom Stoppard Quotes

I've always wanted to be in a play by Tom Stoppard.

— Rosemary Harris

I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.

— Adelaide Clemens

I consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen.

— Patrick Marber

I remember I once had a meeting with Sydney Pollack and the playwright Tom Stoppard, and they thought I was English. I…

— Stephen Dorff

“The ‘role of the theatre’ is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and…

— Tom Stoppard

I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.'…

— Ian Mckellen

In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it…

— Greta Gerwig

“Tom Stoppard’s other work includes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, After Magritte, The Real Thing, Enter A…

— Tom Stoppard

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but…

— Stephen Fry

More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention…

— Mel Gussow

If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played…

— Bel Powley

Little Christian Bale. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I re-watched it not too long ago, and…

— Danny Strong

There were authors I read as an adult who completely inspired me. But when I was a teenager, I got to hang…

— Nick Hornby

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down…

— Alan Bennett

In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a…

— Ed Stoppard

“IN 1967 YOUNG Tom Stoppard had his breakthrough hit, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a brilliant play about actors playing characters playing…

— Kurt Andersen

“My only companion from the outside world during nineteen years of isolation has been my personal hatred of Thursday Next. It's kind…

— Jasper Fforde

“What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that's…

— Walter Isaacson

Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms,…

— Lyn Gardner

There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio…

— Vincent Canby