#we

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#during #father #hammerstein #i #many

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#dress #either #hamlet #like #most

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#his #just #know #shakespeare #start

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#black #comedy #explain #first #had

Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#because #big #big star #day #everybody

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#destroy #interesting #only #questions #those

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#always #anything #known #only #something

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. ↗

— Sophocles

#life #love #one word #pain #us

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. ↗

— Sophocles

#conscience #dwells #powerful #terrible #us

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #deceiver #flows #gratitude #how