Tom Stoppard Quotes

My scripts are possibly too talkative.

Tom Stoppard

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• The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Home
  • Day

• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  

  Mae West
  • Search
  • Coffee
  • Meaning

• I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Help

• How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • American
  • Help
  • Want

• One day, my male companion (they took me for the female) told me what had really caused him to wander about the world and finally to leave it for the Moon. He had not been able to find a single country where the imagination was free.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • World
  • Country
  • Free

• I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.

  

  Jeff Bridges

• Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Important
  • Alone
  • Logic

• Marvel heroes, at their core, are people who are damaged, are people that are trying to figure out who they are in life. And that doesn't matter whether or not they're X-Men characters or they're Matt Murdock or they're Tony Stark or they're Peter Parker... That's where it starts.

  

  Jeph Loeb
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Powerful
  • Smart

• We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.

  

  Katherine Ryan

• I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Football

• There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch

• I approach any collaboration I do differently.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Collaboration

• The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • Men
  • Space
  • Travel

• Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad
  • Beautiful
  • Confidence

• Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

  

  Lee R. Raymond
  • Country
  • Technology
  • Competition

• And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

  

  Matthew Vaughn
  • Writing

• Wayne's my man. I'm proud of him, he worked hard. You know with a lot of people, Wayne's been doing this for years. Wayne had a record deal before I had a record deal, you know what I'm saying? Even though Cash Money been our for 12, 13 years so you know, for him to come up for where he came up, it was all them, B.G, Juvie, Turk, everybody. To see him excel from all that and become one of the hottest people in the game, 10, 12 years later, I'm really proud of him. That's my lil' man.

  

  Cam'ron
  • People
  • Men
  • Proud

• Those sound like the three best answers I've ever heard on this show even though it's the first ever of this show!

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Firsts
  • Shows
  • Answers

• [Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Writing
  • Jump
  • Stills

• While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

  

  Raul Grijalva
  • Debate
  • Gestures
  • Belated

• My scripts are possibly too talkative.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Scripts
  • Talkative