Tom Stoppard Quotes

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard

Health, Attitude, Others

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

Age, Maturity, High

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Tom Stoppard

Become, Older, Childhood

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

Government, Democracy, Voting

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard

Life, Waiting, Whole

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
Tom Stoppard

Trying, Why, Working

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Tom Stoppard

Change, Aim, Journalism

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
Tom Stoppard

Maturity, High, Growing

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
Tom Stoppard

Sometimes, Vaguely

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard

Else, Somewhere, Exit

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

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Tom Stoppard

Someone, Movie, Crush

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
Tom Stoppard

Life, Person, Consider

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

Age, Maturity, High

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Tom Stoppard

Person, Shoulder, Gravitate

Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Tom Stoppard

Good, Short, Twice

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
Tom Stoppard

Life, Terrible, Odds

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

Beauty, May, Joy

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard

Truth, Facts, Principles

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Tom Stoppard

Give, Advice, Bucket

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
Tom Stoppard

End, Mean, Thought

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
Tom Stoppard

Music, Rock, Consider

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
Tom Stoppard

Play, Write, Film

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.
Tom Stoppard

Art, Hard, Understand

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
Tom Stoppard

Great, Black, Comedy

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3, 1937

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