Quotes by Stephen Sondheim

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

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By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional,...

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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the...

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After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to...

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You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have...

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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing...

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When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

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When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got...

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There's something inimical about the camera and song.

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The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper....

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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

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The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't...

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