Sweeney Quotes:

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

- Stephen Sondheim

topic: Sky, Swings, Razors, Sweeney

There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.

- Stephen Sondheim

topic: Names, Black, Pits, Londoners, Sweeney Todd

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

- Anne Sweeney

topic: Positive, Proud, Achieve, Powerful Women, Successful Women

Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!

- Stephen Sondheim

topic: Roots, Miracle, Bottles, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney

Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.

- Marion Jones

topic: Get Involved, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney, Fleet Street

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

- Stephen Sondheim

topic: Wicked, Relief, Would Be, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney

I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

- D. B. Sweeney

topic: Thinking, People, Waiting, Sweeney

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

- D. B. Sweeney

source: "Eight Men Out", www.connectsavannah.com. 1988.

topic: Actors, Sweeney

I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.

- Oliver D. Crisp

topic: Book, Thinking, Oxford, Sweeney, Oxford University

I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us.

- Kate Bush

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Long Ago, Two, People, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney

The big turning point came when I played in the pit orchestra for a production of SWEENEY TODD and I spent most of the time watching the play instead of playing the score! And that's when I knew I had it bad for acting.

- John Cariani

source: "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.

topic: Play, Acting, Pits, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney

I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

- Cornel West

topic: Passion, West, Sides, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney

Johnny Depp's performance is quite remarkable. Sweeney's desire for revenge and the simmering anger and hurt that he feels carry the story forward, and Johnny finds the most remarkable variety within that narrow set of emotions. The intensity is at a boil all the time and he never drops it. It's real anger.

- Stephen Sondheim

topic: Hurt, Revenge, Real, Sweeney, Anger And Hurt

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

- Johnny Depp

source: "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Johnny Depp interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Revenge, Men, Thinking, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney

The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most in [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ].

- Johnny Depp

topic: Shaving, Demon, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney, Barbers

I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ]in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim [Burton].

- Johnny Depp

topic: Believe, Men, Degrees, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

- Eric McCormack

topic: School, Musical, Trying, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney

My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the songs when I was a kid.

- Katie Finneran

topic: Song, Growing Up, Kids, Annie, Sweeney Todd

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

- Chris Colfer

topic: School, Kind, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney, Spoof

But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

- T. S. Eliot

source: The Waste Land l. 196 (1922)

topic: Daughter, Time, Spring, Sweeney

Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together. Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference.

- Linda Howard

topic: Cuddling, Differences, Soldier, Sweeney

I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.

- Lea Michele

topic: Play, People, Guy, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney