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You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK.

'Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film.

Tom Stoppard

I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.

Tom Stoppard

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Tom Stoppard

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

Tom Stoppard

Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.

Tom Stoppard

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

Tom Stoppard

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.

Tom Stoppard

I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.

Tom Stoppard

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

Tom Stoppard

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

Tom Stoppard

The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.

Tom Stoppard

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

Tom Stoppard

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

Tom Stoppard

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.

Tom Stoppard

In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like.

Tom Stoppard

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

Tom Stoppard

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

Tom Stoppard

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

Tom Stoppard

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.

Tom Stoppard

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Tom Stoppard

Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.

Tom Stoppard

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Tom Stoppard

My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and at a certain point - almost too late, really, but in time - they were all sent overseas by their employer.

Tom Stoppard

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Tom Stoppard

I think journalism is important.

Tom Stoppard

I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated.

Tom Stoppard

I'm attracted to the past.

Tom Stoppard

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

Tom Stoppard

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

Tom Stoppard

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?

Tom Stoppard

I'm a very boring person.

Tom Stoppard

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Tom Stoppard

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tom Stoppard

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

Tom Stoppard

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard