Quote

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Tom Stoppard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
Dramaturge
Film Director
Journalist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Zlin
Sir Tom Stoppard
Like
Branch
Branches
Pops
Roll
Consider
Rock
Rocks
Music

More quotes by Tom Stoppard

Image
I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
Tom Stoppard
Image
In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I burn with no causes.
Tom Stoppard
Image
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
Tom Stoppard
Image
One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
Tom Stoppard
Image
One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
Tom Stoppard
Image
The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
Tom Stoppard
Image
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
Image
It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
Tom Stoppard
Image
It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Save the gerund and screw the whale.
Tom Stoppard
Image
My scripts are possibly too talkative.
Tom Stoppard
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 the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
Tom Stoppard