Sondheim Theatre Quotes & Sayings

Alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time! — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

We have to be honest to ourselves to see honesty in others. — Debasish Mridha

Ever since she'd come home from school three years ago, she'd been burrowing under his skin, itching like a host of chigger bites. He kept telling himself not to scratch, but invariably he did anyway, fool that he was. And here he was scratching again, thinking about her when he should be focused on the work at hand. He — Karen Witemeyer

I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts. — J.D. Salinger

Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious ... I firmly believe that lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you not only have the music, but you've got costume, story, acting, orchestra. There's a lot to take in. — Stephen Sondheim

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature. — Camille Paglia

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. — Stephen Sondheim

I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment. — Kevin D. Williamson

Events in the early 1990s in New York City, Texas, and Florida appear to have raised, in the eyes of CBS News, for example, the question of whether religion as such is incompatible with good social order. — Harold O.J. Brown

I don't have a definition of God, because I've never really understood that word. People have different understandings of it and it's caused a great deal of conflict. If I had to say what would my definition of God be, if I were going to use that word, I would say that this universe has layers upon layers upon layers of compassion and wisdom beyond ours. — Gary Zukav

What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre. — Stephen Sondheim