Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSLis a British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil, The Russia House, and Shakespeare in Love, and has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Themes of human rights, censorship and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 July 1937
CityZlin, Czech Republic
Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
can only write about what bites you.
Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
I burn with no causes.
Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.
I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.