Birthday Quote by Tom Stoppard

“Literary figures have no pre-history. It is said that a theatre director who was staging one of Harold Pinter's plays asked the playwright for…

— Terry Eagleton

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who…

— Harold Pinter

I worked with Harold Pinter once as my first Broadway show. It was one of the most exciting things that ever happened to me.

— F. Murray Abraham

I actually grew up around the corner from where Harold Pinter did. If you want a snapshot of my childhood, me and Pinter, we…

— Zawe Ashton

In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in a room…

— August Wilson

I was never the kind to throw parties for my birthday. I remember how embarrassed I used to be when they'd make me cut…

— Hema Malini

“I am a social outcast, shunned by society. Nobody ever invites me to parties. My own birthday avoids me, and only comes around every…

— Jarod Kintz

I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.

— Dominic Chianese

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a…

— Rachel Joyce

The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job,…

— Elizabeth Marvel

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

— Daniel Kaluuya

My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

— Harold Pinter