649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.

I'm very garrulous, but I don't say anything.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated.

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

I like the notion of theater as recreational.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.