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Your Quotes for 3 July 2005 - Tom Stoppard

Tomáš Straüssler was born at Zlín, Czechoslovakia on this day in 1937. The family fled the day the Nazis invaded, landing in Singapore. Bad call: the Japanese invaded Singapore, his father was killed, and his mother took him to India where she married a British army officer. After the war the family moved to England and Tom took his stepfather's name to become Tom Stoppard. He dropped out of school to become a journalist, but after two years of reviewing drama he took to writing plays himself. His long list of credits includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Russia House, and Shakespeare in Love. Uncredited, he worked with George Lucas to polish dialogue for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

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.
     - All from Tom Stoppard

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