649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience. It's a stream of information, but you've got your hand on the tap, and you control in which order the audience receives it and with what emphasis, and how you hold it all together.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

The sense of suppression, ... or self-suppression, and pressure generally which came off even this photograph of the page of this diary was so strong and so moving. There was a love story here.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.