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
Save the gerund and screw the whale.
There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.
I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear
What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?
I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.
You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.
The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.