Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
-
There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
-
I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
-
The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
-
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
-
I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.
-
When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
-
I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
-
I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
-
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
-
For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
-
Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?
-
For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.
-
When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
-
I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.
-
I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
-
For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
-
What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
-
It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.
-
My real life was when I was just a working guy. You know, it's OK to head out for Wonderful. But on your way to Wonderful, you're gonna have to pass through All Right. And when you get to All Right, take a good look around, and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.
-
In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.
-
There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
-
I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.
-
I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
