649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.