Quote #59
When Harold Pinter was lobbying to have London's Comedy Theatre renamed the Pinter Theatre, Stoppard wrote back: 'Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?'
More from Tom Stoppard
- I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
- A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
- I began my talk by saying that I had not written my plays for purposes of discussion. At once, I felt a ripple of panic run through the hal…
- I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
- If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
- (Falls down in a drunken stupor): Let's sit down.
- 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.