Том Стоппард цитаты
Том Стоппард
Дата рождения: 3. Июль 1937
Другие имена:تام استاپارد
Сэр Том Сто́ппард — британский драматург, режиссёр, киносценарист и критик.
Цитаты Том Стоппард
„An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality.“
— Tom Stoppard
Context: An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously and contiguously, from Troy to the fields of Flanders. If there is any meaning in any of it, it is in what survives as art, yes even in the celebration of tyrants, yes even in the celebration of nonentities. What now of the Trojan War if it had been passed over by the artist's touch? Dust. A forgotten expedition prompted by Greek merchants looking for new markets. A minor redistribution of broken pots. But it is we who stand enriched, by a tale of heroes, of a golden apple, a wooden horse, a face that launched a thousand ships — and above all, of Ulysses, the wanderer, the most human, the most complete of all heroes — husband, father, son, lover, farmer, soldier, pacifist, politician, inventor and adventurer.
Joyce, Act I
Stoppard called this "the most important" speech in the play.
„Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.“
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
„There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.“
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
„We're actors — we're the opposite of people!“
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
„Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.“
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
„I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.“
— Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
Context: Buddy Holly was twenty-two. Think of what he might have gone on to achieve. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.
Henry, Act II, scene V
„Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?“
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
„Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.“
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
„Pirates could happen to anyone.“
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
