Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 9/8/08 at 10:27pm

What are some of your favorite serious quote from a Broaday Show,Actor,Song,etc.

Mine is from Company "There is a time to come to New York and there is a time to leave.

[ratherbewhaling]

Posted: 9/8/08 at 10:53pm

the choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not, you've got to move on

&

anything you do, let it come from you, and it will be new

-sunday in the park with george

sondheim is ~deep~ like that

Updated On: 9/8/08 at 10:53 PM

[adamgreer]

Posted: 9/8/08 at 11:10pm

Let's get this over with and get to the bar.

~Elaine Stritch

[BroadwayBoy2]

Posted: 9/8/08 at 11:18pm

ucjrdude902, that new york quote is my favorate sondheim quote, possibly the best theatre quote ever!

[singingbackup]

Posted: 9/8/08 at 11:20pm

"When you know you can't have what you want,
Where's the profit in wishing?"

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 9/8/08 at 11:44pm

Updated On: 5/1/09 at 11:44 PM

[DefyGravity777]

Posted: 9/8/08 at 11:46pm

Don't wish,don't start,wishing only wounds the heart.

Edited to say my quote is from Wicked.

Updated On: 9/9/08 at 11:46 PM

[skb2010]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 12:32am

"Wishes come true, not free"

Into the Woods.

[broadwayfan7]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 8:06am

"Where it's 100 in the shade but with patience and faith we remain unafraid."---In The Heights.

Updated On: 9/9/08 at 08:06 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 8:08am

If people want to include the show they're quoting from, that would be helpful.

[D2]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 8:20am

Wear your hair down and a flower
don't use makeup
dress in white
she'll grow older by the hour
and be hopelessly shattered by Saturday night

Sondheim, again, A Weekend in the Country A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

And, see my sig vvvvvv

Updated On: 9/9/08 at 08:20 AM

[TonyVincent]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 9:03am

"White: a blank page or canvas. His favorite--so many possibilities." - SITPWG

"You've got to have a dream--if you don't have dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?" - South Pacific

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 9:18am

I think the entire song is pretty deep, but especially the last verse:
"It's the fragment, not the day.
It's the pebble, not the stream.
It's the ripple, not the sea
That is happening.
Not the building but the beam,
Not the garden but the stone,
Only cups of tea
And history
And someone in a tree."
-Someone in a Tree, Pacific Overtures

[Urban]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 9:26am

Sondheim alone is a goldmine of deep and serious quotable quotes.

My two person favorites are:

"I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right"

"Let them curse me to hell, Leave it to history to tell, What I did, I did well, And I did it for my country"

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 9:47am

What shows are they from?

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 9:50am

Urban's 2nd is from Assassins.

Also, some of y'all might want to stop attributing some of these quotes to Sondheim when they were written by his bookwriters.

[Kad]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 10:15am

If you know what you want, then you go and you find it and you get it. (Sondheim, Into the Woods)

[Urban]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 10:20am

The first was ITWs (the Witch) and the second, as shesamarshmellow said, was Assassins.

I figure both where Sondheim and not a book-writer only because they are actual lyrics from songs (Last Midnight & Ballad of John Wilkes Booth)

[Mood_Indigo]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 10:25am

"you're so nice,
you're not good,
you're not bad,you're just nice.
I'm not good, I'm not nice,
I'm just right."

-Into the Woods Updated On: 9/9/08 at 10:25 AM

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 10:33am

I think shesamarshmallow was referring to some of the Company quotes, which would be George Furth's.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 9/9/08 at 10:50am

Look I made a hat, where there never was a hat. - Sunday in the Park

[commasplice]

Posted: 9/10/08 at 12:03am

"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -- Little Fish

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 9/10/08 at 12:56am

"Listen, nobody got into this business to play it safe. And we're all here because we wanted to be and you're all acting like it's another job - but it's not"
~ Diana Morales, "A Chorus Line"

[Broadway Baby 2]

Posted: 9/10/08 at 1:29am

I have a fiew faves.

"I was born to soon and started to late" Gypsy

"With what I have in me, I could've been better than any of you! With what I got in me-what I been holding down inside of me-if I ever let it out, there woulden't be signs big enough! There wouldn't lights bright enough" Gypsy

And of corse

"MOO MOO MOO MOO" Gypsy

Updated On: 9/10/08 at 01:29 AM

[notyourmomma]

Posted: 9/10/08 at 1:51am

Pretty much the entire "Passing Strange" CD.