649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.

With his earliest work he stood alone in British theatre up against the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics, the audience and writers too.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.

What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.