Stephen Sondheim
dramaturge, songwriter, screenwriter, poet, lyricist, musician, composer, librettist
Read on Wikipedia1930 – 2021
All Quotes by Stephen Sondheim
“My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them.”
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
“I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.”
“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.”
“I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.”
“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.”