Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

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Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 10:14pm

OK- yet another Sweeney Todd board. What is your favorite quote from the musical Sweeney Todd?

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

Updated On: 1/17/06 at 10:14 PM

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 10:30pm

"How can you remain staring at the rain, maddened by the stars?"

-Johanna

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 10:32pm

My favorite quote is:

"And though I'll think of you I guess until the day I die, I think I miss you less and less as everyday goes by, Johanna..."

There is so much meaning behind that quote, it shows how Sweeney is losing his main focus and how his revenge has driven him mad. It's perfect.

"Listen to the song that I sing and trust me..."

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 10:32pm

"Me rumpled bedding legitimized"

-Mrs. Lovett, "By the Sea"

"The sense that everything's going right is a sure sense that everything's going wrong." -The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 10:53pm

If we're going for funny classic ...

"And actor that's compacter..."
"Yes, and always arrived overdone!"

Uhm. So. True.

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:04pm

Attendthetale took mine!

I also like:
"The more he bleeds, the more he lives. He never forgets and he never forgives. Perhaps today you gave a nod to Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

And because I just really love this part:
"Mrs. Lovett, you're a bloody wonder eminently practical and yet appropriate as always. Mrs. Lovett, how I've lived without you all these years I'll never know!"

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:10pm

You are young; Life has been kind to you; you will learn.

You are young, life has been kind to you. You will learn.

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:14pm

" They all deserve to die! Tell ya why, Mrs. Lovett, tell ya why!"

I don't think I have ever heard so much philosophy in so little words in my entire life. This quote is so broad and amazing in what it is communicating. It also is the most amazing part of the character of Sweeney Todd in the entire show.

Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine! -The Likes of Us

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:14pm

"Have charity towards the world, my pet!"
"Yes, yes, I know, my love."
"We'll take the customers that we can get."
"High born and low, my love."
"We'll not discriminate great from small -
no, we'll serve anyone -
meaning anyone -
And TO anyone -
AT ALL!"

"You're in a merry mood today, Mr. Todd."

"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay

GO CARDINALS!!!

#10

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:18pm

What Sondheim lyric isn't likable?

"Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, 'I knew he loved me when he didn't come in my mouth.'" ~ Andy Warhol

#11

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:19pm

Answer ByMYSide:

" It's alarming how charming I feel."
That's the classic one that both Sondheim and a lot of his fans laugh about.

Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine! -The Likes of Us

#12

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:24pm

"and we have some shepard's pie peppered with actual shepard on top!"

really - all of A Little Priest - it's just so great

We cannot know what will occur/Just make our journey worth the taking/And pray we're wiser then we were/In the beginning" ~Children of Eden "Risk is everything" ~The Light in the Piazza "I can just see us now in our bathing dresses...you in a nice navy and me? Stripes perhaps." ~Sweeney Todd Tovah Won Me Ovah '06

#13

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:27pm

That song probably is the song with the best lyrics of any.

Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine! -The Likes of Us

#14

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:40pm

hysterical and quite brilliant

it's probably my favorite in the show...or in the top three at least

#15

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:42pm

"popping pu**ies into pies"

I mean COME ON!

"Shepherd's Pie peppered with actual shepherd on top"

Updated On: 1/17/06 at 11:42 PM

#16

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/17/06 at 11:57pm

Oh man, more like this is my favorite book of a show ever just cause so many fun lines. I think I would get yelled at if I listed them all. Okay heres one
"Stop Mr. Fogg, or I'll fire!"
"Fire and I will stop!"

#17

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:09am

PUSSIES! It's not sexual!

CATS! I don't think it even really works as innuendo.

Anywho, I CRY everytime I hear that sudden switch in music at the finale, right after Lovette's out cry of, "I LOOOOVE YOU!", and the A Little Priest Reprise starts...

So blood chillingly good. The slow ritard. and crescendo into the first beat of the reprise is Sweeney LOSING it, and.... SNAP!, Mrs. Lovette, you're a bloody wonder, imminently practical and yet appropriate, as always.. etc.

Pure brilliance.

Other brilliance:

"That's all very well, but what are we gonna do about the eye-talian..
...
"Well, you know me, bright eye keep.. POPPIN into me head, and keep thinkin'...Seems a downright shame."
"Shame?"
"Seems an awful waste. Such a nice plump frame what's 'is name 'as. 'Ad. 'AS! Nor it can't be traced. Business needs a lift, debts to be erased. Think of it as thrift, as a gift... if you get my drift. No?"

LOOOVE IT.

Personally, I think I have too much bloom.

#18

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:16am

Look at my signature.

But the work waits! I'm alive at last, and I'm full of joy!!!

#19

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/18/06 at 2:32am

I dont know why but I love:

See that chap with
Hair like Shelley's?
You can tell 'e's
Used Pirelli's!

Updated On: 2/15/14 at 02:32 AM

#20

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/18/06 at 4:59am

I don't agree with either philosophies in the following lyrics. But I do love the lyrics because they ooze such a sinister monster... and I'm a sucker for rapid lyrics.

"There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and it's filled with people who are filled with sh*t and the vermin of the world inhabit it."

"Cuz in all of the whole human world, Mrs. Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two. There's the one staying put in his proper place and the one with his foot in the other's one's face. Look at me, Mrs. Lovett, look at you."

Johana to Anthony:
"I knew I'd be with you one day even not knowing who you were."

Not to mention the punchy one liners from Mrs. Lovett:

"With the price of meat what it is, when you get it, if you get it..."
PAUSE
"HUH!"
"Good you got it."

"Well of course, we could do that..."

And all of the Ballads. Mainly because of the boisterous all-power ensemble parts and the Beadle's falsetto. And the xylophone.

Updated On: 1/18/06 at 04:59 AM

#21

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/18/06 at 8:43am

Lovett: "It's a bit stringy, but then again, it is fiddle player."
Todd: No, it isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player.
Lovett: How can you tell?
Todd: It's piping hot!
Lovett: Blow on it then!

Then again, I agree with wherethehorizonlies.

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

Updated On: 1/18/06 at 08:43 AM

#22

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/18/06 at 9:04am

Anything spoken by that older actress with the American accent. What a special character, she sticks out like a sore thumb.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

#23

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/18/06 at 2:17pm

Nah; Patti rocks.

I'll take all of "By the Sea" as my favorite -- that song amazes me.

#24

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/18/06 at 2:32pm

"What happened then, well, that's the play, and he wouldn't want us to give it away...not Sweeney...not Sweeney Todd...the demon barber of Fleet Street."

#25

re: Favorite Sweeney Todd Quote

Posted: 1/18/06 at 2:38pm

"The history of the world, my sweet, is who gets eaten and who gets to eat. But forunately it's also clear that everybody goes down well with beer!"

"The history of the world, my love, is those below serving those up above. How gratifying, for once, to know that those above will serve those down below!"

Those two quotes always make the hairs on my neck stand up ...

And somebody already pointed it out, but I lose it during all of Sweeney's version of "Johanna" ... Sweeney's just so blinded by his rage and grief. Augh.

... Just ... so ... great. ::collapses::

Stop looking at my charisma.

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