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
Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.
I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.
I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.
To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?
Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.
My brain cells are dying in their trillions.
Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen.
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.