Stephen Sondheim Quotes

For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

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• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Piano
  • Tour

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

  

  Raf Simons
  • World
  • Art
  • Fashion

• A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • You
  • Way
  • Eye

• We are all terminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Terminal

• I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Future
  • Look
  • Where

• That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • Why
  • Night

• I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Star
  • Film
  • Inspiration

• Every crowd has a silver lining.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Crowd
  • Silver
  • Lining

• As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • World
  • Lost
  • Comedy

• Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Life
  • May
  • Talk

• My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Father
  • Potential
  • Philanthropic

• Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

  

  Nadine Gordimer

• Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.

  

  Danny Masterson
  • People
  • Catholic

• It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • True
  • Smile

• You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.

  

  Lili Taylor
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Rest

• We don't need unelected federal agency bureaucrats in Washington telling our states what they can and can't do with respect to protecting their limited taxpayer dollars in private enterprises.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Respect

• I'm going to build an empire. I'm always writing for someone else. I want to be someone who has her fingerprints all over the pop charts.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Writing

• I knew a lot of black scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and female mathematicians and engineers, women of all backgrounds. So this idea that anyone could be an engineer, a mathematician, or whatever, was something that I had grown up with and thought was really normal.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Up
  • Women
  • Black

• It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

  

  Charlie Simpson Busted
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Band

• Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • World
  • Character
  • Struggle

• "Vell," said Mr. Weller, "Now I s'pose he'll want to call some witnesses to speak to his character, or p'raps to prove a alleybi. I've been a turnin' the bis'ness over in my mind, and he may make his-self easy, Sammy. I've got some friends as'll do either for him, but my adwice 'ud be this here-never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi. Nothing like a alleybi, Sammy, nothing."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Witness

• For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
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