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.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

The only reason to write is from love.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

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

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.

Hard hands and no sense of humor makes for a bad marriage.

Where Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author.

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice to get the part.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.