Gets Quote by Tom Stoppard Download Open image “I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.” — Tom Stoppard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gets Involved Movie Movies Play Playwright Who Writing
As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that. — Cherry Jones Copy Share Image
I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort… — David Ives Copy Share Image
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing. — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of… — Peter Gould Copy Share Image
I am basically a theatre artiste. However, after stepping into cinema, I did not get much opportunity to act in plays. — Padmapriya Janakiraman 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 in film… — 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
When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency.… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I'll answer anything... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble. — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town. — Charlie Norwood Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'You're just a pretty face,' but… — Grace Park Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not comfortable in a Speedo! That's as uncomfortable as it gets! — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Maitre d's are at the financial spigot of the restaurant, meaning they control who gets in and who doesn't, but aside from that, they… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
Money is a good thing, but every morning you have to get up with something no one else in the world gets up with - that's that image. That face you see in the mirror, you got to love it, and you better do some things that you feel good about inside of you. Of course, money is going to… — George Foreman Copy Share
