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

• As for the (Ballon d'Or) criteria, I'm not really sure how it works. Sometimes it's a World Cup year, sometimes it isn't. Let them vote. For me, there is no doubt as to who is the best, year after year.

  

  David Villa
  • World
  • Sometimes
  • Doubt

• The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count.

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Impossible
  • Amount
  • Boards

• I'm a lot different in my career since that interview. To have someone like Diplo tweet "Cakes' album is really cool" is cool, but in the same breath I still like what I do without anyone's approval. It's still good music.

  

  Rashard Bradshaw
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • World
  • Strong
  • Shame

• When we start designing something, we sketch out ideas with a big, thick Sharpie marker, instead of a ball-point pen. Why? Pen points are too fine. They’re too high-resolution. They encourage you to worry about things that you shouldn’t worry about yet, like perfecting the shading or whether to use a dotted or dashed line. You end up focusing on things that should still be out of focus. A Sharpie makes it impossible to drill down that deep. You can only draw shapes, lines, and boxes. That’s good. The big picture is all you should be worrying about in the beginning.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Ideas
  • Sharpie marker

• My scripts are possibly too talkative.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Scripts
  • Talkative