Top 100 Sweeney Quotes
#1. I need to know how you did it it.
I did it, said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secret, witch panache and style. That's how I did it.
(Shadow & Mad Sweeney)
Neil Gaiman
#2. You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
Harold Prince
#3. '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
#4. 'Sweeney Todd' is my favorite Sondheim musical.
Lesley Nicol
#5. When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.
Lennie James
#6. Paranormal. It rolls off the tongue with such poetry but it means something like, beyond normal. There is nothing paranormal about magic. Magic is the norm.
- Penny Sweeney
Magic All Around
Marcy L. Peska
#7. And then you rushed off afterward because of that business with the barber in Gleam Street." "Sweeney Jones," said Vimes. "Well, he was killing people, Sybil. The best you could say is that he didn't mean to. He was just very bad at shaving -
Terry Pratchett
#8. I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'
Jason Alexander
#9. They couldn't him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Dreirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees. He was miracle ingredient Z-247.
Joseph Heller
#10. Thanks to Steven, I rode on a bus with the Gay Men's chorus, which he and the doctor had joined. All the way they sang. When I looked at Steven and made a face, he looked offended, but I didn't care. It was way too early in the morning for anything from Sweeney Todd.
George Hodgman
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together.
Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference.
Linda Howard
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play.
John Logan
#19. Sweeney took a step closer to Wednesday. "Call me a freeloader, will you, you doomed old creature? You cold-blooded, heartless old tree-hanger." His face was turning a deep, angry red.
Wednesday put out his hands, palms up, pacific. "Foolishness, Sweeney. Watch where you put your words.
Neil Gaiman
#20. If only gossip weren't so titillating. Sweeney tried to control an avid desire to know more, to dig for all the dirty details.
The temptation was great. Dirt was like fat; it made life more delicious.
Linda Howard
#21. Every demon loves Sweeney Todd, you know. It's kind of a given.
Michelle Knudsen
#22. 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
#23. There was no better end than Lance Alworth and no better lineman than Ron Mix. Those are Hall of Fame guys. There was no better guard than Walt Sweeney and no better pair of running backs than Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe.
Sid Gillman
#24. 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
#26. Leo was the only one who had never petitioned Francie for a loan using The Nest as collateral. Jack and Melody and Bea had all asked at one time that she consider an earlier dispersal, but she stubbornly refused.Until Leo's accident.
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
#27. You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Paul Sweeney
#28. If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.
Anne Sweeney
#29. When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wanted to be healthy - to have fun playing soccer with my son or teaching my daughter to shoot hoops. Then it was so much easier to say no to carbs, soda, or dessert, and the weight just came off.
Alison Sweeney
#30. There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.
John Sweeney
#31. Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me.
Julia Sweeney
#32. Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.
Anne Sweeney
#33. This was the part she hated, the part of a relationship that always nudged her to bail, the part where someone else's misery or expectations or neediness crept into her carefully prescribed world. It was such a burden, other people's lives.
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
#34. They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time.
John Sweeney
#35. [...] I was created by cruel men. Not in a lab, not in a test tube, but through years of undeserved mistreatment at a time in life that's supposed to be magical. Early adulthood. Newfound freedom, newfound love.
Steph Sweeney
#36. Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with 'adult.' But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#37. The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining.
Thomas Sweeney
#38. I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
D. B. Sweeney
#39. If you're sitting in front of the TV, you can't have ice cream. But if you're running around all day, then yeah, you can.
Alison Sweeney
#40. I lost myself there - my mind imaging what was under his towel and what I would like to do to him. - Emma
Martha Sweeney
#41. It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.
Julia Sweeney
#44. I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.
Julia Sweeney
#45. Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
Julia Sweeney
#46. It's amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.
Anne Sweeney
#47. Odd is a compliment," he continued, his eyes twinkling, "whereas weird is an insult.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#48. Thank God my life is normal. I work hard to make it normal. My husband and I don't want Hollywood drama. I go to the market and do the dishes. I'm not treated differently because I work on TV.
Alison Sweeney
#49. My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.
Alison Sweeney
#50. The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.
Anne Sweeney
#51. We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like 'The Biggest Loser' and even 'Amazing Race.' You learn a lot about the world, it's fun and nobody's interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I'm a huge fan of 'Survivor.'
Alison Sweeney
#52. Working towards something you're excited about - as opposed to something that makes you feel badly about yourself - is what will keep you going back to the gym.
Alison Sweeney
#53. I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'
Anne Sweeney
#54. A little playful banter never hurt - or did it? - Emma
Martha Sweeney
#55. Because of GLHR's crusades ... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families.
John Sweeney
#56. she understood he was lonely and that their ritual comforted him, connected the noises of her life with the silence of his
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
#57. Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.
Marion Jones
#58. I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.
John Sweeney
#59. Kids don't eat fast. They take their time; they talk and laugh. Sometimes it's really annoying, because you're like, 'Come on, it's bedtime!' But try it: You'll fill up before you know it, because it takes 20 minutes for your brain to know your stomach is full.
Alison Sweeney
#60. It's more than a feeling," I whispered to the darkness of my room, "and ... even more than a choice. It is a conviction. And a mystery. A beautiful, beautiful mystery.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#62. He's convinced that you're a psycho," I explained, as I reached the bench. "He has the list narrowed down to either a double agent or a serial killer.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#63. I'm a fan of daytime drama; I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will get the audience riled up, I feel like I'm a fan in the room going, 'People are going to be so mad right now!'
Alison Sweeney
#64. Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father}
Richard Mc Sweeney
#65. When life hands you lemons, hand them back and demand chocolate!
Suzanne Sweeney
#66. I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.
D. B. Sweeney
#67. Jelly had no brain per se but was in essence all brain, a shared consciousness programmed for desire. He had an appetite for everything, voraciously absorbing the culture that surrounded him and becoming it, only louder. In other words, he was extremely teenaged.
Larry Doyle
#68. Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.
John J. Sweeney
#69. I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.
John Sweeney
#70. The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.
Anne Sweeney
#72. Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.
D. B. Sweeney
#73. I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club.
Alison Sweeney
#74. People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.
John Sweeney
#75. Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.
John Sweeney
#76. We have stay-in date nights where we make a plan to watch certain TV shows together. 'Survivor,' for example, is our favorite show. And I make a healthy dinner and we sit down and it's our date. I love it.
Alison Sweeney
#78. I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.
Alison Sweeney
#80. True patriotism, Jack believed, would have been for his fellow Americans to look inward after 9/11 and accept a little blame, admit the attacks had happened, in part, because of who they were in the world, not in spite of it.
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
#81. In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.
John Sweeney
#83. When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.
D. B. Sweeney
#84. She was open to love, but she was best at managing her own happiness; it was other people's happiness that sunk her.
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
#85. A few days earlier, Adriana and I had been browsing books at the local library. I happened to turn around and look at her ... and that was it. The man who "loved to laugh" in Mary Poppins had nothing on us.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#88. I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.
Alison Sweeney
#89. It seems to me that we learn the most not when we look for a certain answer, but when we allow questions to naturally guide us to an outocme, often an outcome that we have not planned or predicted. My goal ... is to live the questions.
Michael Sweeney
#90. The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.
John Sweeney
#91. Something significant, magical, and
inspiring happens with each word you read in the pages of a book. You explore new lands, meet new people, feel new emotions, and are no longer the same person you were one word prior to reading it.
Martha Sweeney
#93. I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.
Julia Sweeney
#94. A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.
Anne Sweeney
#95. behind her out in their yard screeching and laughing. Their dad was yelling: "Don't eat the
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
#96. St. Catherine of Siena once said, 'If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze.' But," I turned to him urgently, "how can I even light a single candle if someone blocks off the first step?
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#97. I'm finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true.
Julia Sweeney
#98. I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.
Alison Sweeney
#100. But it was also the best mistake I've ever made, because what it did was hopefully allow a whole new generation to make up their own minds about Scientology and for that I make no apology.
John Sweeney
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