Tom Stoppard Quotes

There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are just beautifully made but I don't like them. And critics have a tendency - that's all they focus on, which is, "I like it. I don't like it. It's good. It's bad."

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

You either like something, or you don't; you won't change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it.

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

I'm not very good at being dull.

When somebody comes along and says, "I think Washington, DC, sucks," that's not wrong.

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

Purple's my favorite color.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

Not everyone's going to like my music. People might not like my music, because I'm just not their style of music that they like to listen to.

Some people are going to like the decisions I made, some people are not going to like the decisions that I made. That's just the way it is.

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

You're probably the most boring teenager in the world.

The fact that there is no right or wrong is what I think is maddening. I can think you're a phenomenal actor, but the guy next door can think you're a horrible actor, and neither of us is wrong and neither of us is right. It's just a matter of opinion.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.