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“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.”

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Author:Eric McCormack

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

Author:D. B. 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.”

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Author:D. B. 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.”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

“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].”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“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.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“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.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“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.”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

“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.”

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Author:John Cariani

“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.”

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Author:Cornel West

“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.”

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Author:Kate Bush

“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.”

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Author:Oliver D. Crisp

“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.”

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Author:Lea Michele

“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.”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

“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!”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

“There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London!”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

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

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Author:Linda Howard

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

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Book:Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street: a musical thriller

Source: Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street: a musical thriller

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

“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.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

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

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Author:Marion Jones

“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.”

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Author:Chris Colfer

“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.”

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Author:Katie Finneran