Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Quotes (2007)
Sweeney Todd: Where is Lucy? Where is my wife?
Mrs. Lovett: She poisoned herself. Arsenic from the apothecary around the corner… and he’s got your daughter.
Sweeney Todd: He? Judge Turpin?
Sweeney Todd: Noooooo! Would no one have mercy on her?
Mrs. Lovett: So it’s you. Benjamin Barker
Sweeney Todd: Where’s Lucy? Where’s my wife?
Mrs. Lovett: She poisoned herself, arsenic from the apothecary round the corner, I tried to stop her, but she wouldn’t listen to me, and he’s got your daughter.
Sweeney Todd: He? Judge Turpin?
Mrs. Lovett: [nods]
Sweeney Todd: 15 years sweating, and living hell, for a false charge. 15 years dreaming I might come home to a wife and child.
Mrs. Lovett: Well, I can’t say the years have been particularly kind to you, Mr. Barker.
Sweeney Todd: No, not Barker. That man is dead. It’s Todd now. Sweeney Todd… and he will have his revenge.
Narrator: This is the tale of an ordinary man, who had everything…
Mrs. Lovett: Barker, his name was. Benjamin Barker.
Narrator: Until a man of power stole his freedom, destroyed his family and banished him… for life. And in his sorrow a new man was born.
Judge Turpin: [as he sentences boy prisoner] May the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Sweeney Todd: I can guarantee the closest shave you’ll ever know.
Sweeney Todd: How about a shave?
Sweeney Todd: Alright! You, sir? How about a shave? Come and visit your good friend Sweeney! You sir! Too, sir. Welcome to the grave… I will have vengeance. I will have salvation… Who, sir? You sir!No one’s in the chair. Come on, come on! Sweeney’s waiting. I want you bleeders. You sir? Anybody? Gentlemen, now don’t be shy. Not one man… No, nor ten men… Nor a hundred can assuage me. I will have you! And I will get him back even as he gloats; In the meantime I’ll practice on less honorable throats… And my Lucy lies in ashes, and I’ll never see my girl again. But the work waits! I’m alive at last, and I’m full of joy!
Sweeney Todd: [holding up one of his razors] At last! My arm is complete again!
Signor Adolfo Pirelli: [to Sweeney] May the good Lord smile on you.
Anthony Hope: [comes rushing in looking for Sweeney only to see Mrs.Lovett] Oh, I’m sorry. Excuse me…
Mrs. Lovett: Mrs.Lovett, son.
Anthony Hope: A pleasure, ma’am.
[he finally see's Sweeney]
Anthony Hope: [really quickly] Mr.Todd, there’s a girl who needs my help. Such a sad girl, and lonely but beautiful to and…
Sweeney Todd: [he leads Antony to a chair] Slow down, son.
Anthony Hope: [sits down] Yes, I’m sorry. This girl has a guardian who keeps her locked away, but then this morning she dropped this
[holds up a key]
Anthony Hope: surely a sign that Johanna wants me to help her. That’s her name, Johanna, and Turpin is her guardian. He’s a judge of some sort. Once he goes to court, I’m going to skip into the house, release her, and beg her to come away with me tonight!
Mrs. Lovett: Oh, this is very romantic.
Anthony Hope: [he turns to Mrs.Lovett] Yes.
[he turns back to Todd]
Anthony Hope: But I don’t know anyone in London, you see, and I need somewhere safe to bring her until I’ve hired a coach to take us away. If I could keep her just for an hour or two, I’d be forever in your debt.
Mrs. Lovett: Bring her ‘ere, love.
Anthony Hope: [to Mrs.Lovett] Thank you, ma’am.
Anthony Hope: [to Todd]
Anthony Hope: Mr.Todd…?
Sweeney Todd: [Sweeney can only nod in agreement]
Judge Turpin: Oh yes… such practices. The Geishas of Japan, the concubines of Siam, the catamites of Greece, the harlots of India. I have them all here, drawings of them. Everything you’ve ever dreamed of doing with a woman. Would you like to see?
Anthony Hope: I think there’s been some mistake.
Judge Turpin: I think not. You gandered at my ward, Johanna. You gandered at her. YES, sir, you gandered!
Anthony Hope: I meant no harm.
Judge Turpin: Your meaning is immaterial. Mark me! If I see your face again on this street, you’ll rue the day you were born.
Sweeney Todd: [sung to his razor] There there, my friend… /Come, let me hold you…
Mrs. Lovett: [sung] I’m your friend too, Mr. Todd… /If you only knew, Mr Todd…
Mrs. Lovett: Mr. T, you didn’t!
[looks into the chest, sees Pirelli's dead body and gasps. Shuts it]
Mrs. Lovett: You’re barking mad! Killing a man what done ya no harm!
Sweeney Todd: [polishing his razor] He recognized me from the old days. Tried to blackmail me. Half me earnings.
Mrs. Lovett: [relieved] Oh, well that’s a different matter then. For a moment there I thought you lost your marbles.
[opens the chest again and stares]
Mrs. Lovett: Ugh! All that blood. Poor bugger. Oh well!
[looks through Pirelli's jacket before removing his money pouch and examining its contents]
Mrs. Lovett: Well, waste not, want not!
[tucks it into her bodice]
Mrs. Lovett: That lad is drinking me out o’ house an’ home.
Sweeney Todd: [sung] They all deserve to die. Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why! Because in all of the whole human race, Mrs. Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two. There’s the one staying put in his proper place and one with his foot in the other one’s face. Look at me, Mrs Lovett! Look at you! No, we 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 will be a relief. We all deserve to die… And I’ll never see Johanna, no I’ll never hug my girl to me… FINISHED!
Signor Adolfo Pirelli: Mr.Todd?
Sweeney Todd: Signor Pirelli.
Signor Adolfo Pirelli: [reverting to a Cockney accent] Call me Davy. Davy Connor’s the name when it isn’t professional.
Sweeney Todd: And who may it be said is your intended, sir?
Judge Turpin: My ward… and pretty as a rosebud.
Sweeney Todd: Pretty as her mother?
Judge Turpin: [confused] Wha… what was that?
Sweeney Todd: Nothing, sir. Nothing. May we proceed?
Sweeney Todd: [to Mrs. Lovett while looking at his razor] The Judge! When will we get to him?
Judge Turpin: You’re in a merry mood today, Mr. Todd.
Sweeney Todd: And I will get him back even as he gloats in the mean time I’ll practice on less honorable throats, and my Lucy lies in ashes and I’ll never see my girl again!
Anthony Hope: Is everything alright Mister Todd?
Sweeney Todd: My mind is far from easy, in these once familiar streets I feel shadows… everywhere…
Anthony Hope: Shadows?
Sweeney Todd: …Ghosts.
Johanna: I’ve never had dreams, only nightmares.
Beggar Woman: [to Sweeney] ‘ey, don’t I know you, mister?
Sweeney Todd: [singing about razors] These are my friends. See how they glisten.
Johanna: If I cannot fly, let me sing…
Sweeney Todd: You have a room over the shop, don’t you? If times are so hard, why don’t you rent it out?
Mrs. Lovett: People think it’s haunted.
Sweeney Todd: Haunted?
Mrs. Lovett: Yeah. And who’s to say they’re wrong? You see, years ago, something happened up there. Something not very nice.
Judge Turpin: How seldom it is one meets a fellow spirit.
Sweeney Todd: With fellow tastes… in women at least.
Judge Turpin: [unsettled] What’s that?
Sweeney Todd: The years, no doubt, have changed me, sir. But then I suppose the face of a barber, the face of a prisoner in the dock, is not particularly memorable.
Judge Turpin: [with immense shock] Benjamin… Barker…
Sweeney Todd: [shouts] Benjamin Barker!
Mrs. Lovett: [placing a small pie on the counter] Here we are. Hot out of the oven.
Sweeney Todd: What is THAT?
Mrs. Lovett: [sings] It’s priest. Have a little priest…
Sweeney Todd: [sings] Is it really good?
Mrs. Lovett: [sings] Sir, it’s too good, at least. Then again, they don’t commit sins of the flesh… so it’s pretty fresh.
Johanna: [after Turpin discovers her packing] Sir, a gentleman knocks before entering a ladies room.
Judge Turpin: Indeed, that’s true, but I see no lady.
Mrs. Lovett: Barker, his name was. Benjamin Barker.
Sweeney Todd: What was his crime?
Mrs. Lovett: Foolishness.
Sweeney Todd: The history of the world, my pet…
Mrs. Lovett: Oh, Mr. Todd! Ooh, Mr. Todd! Leave it to me!
Sweeney Todd: Is learn forgiveness and try to forget!
Mrs. Lovett: By the sea, Mr. Todd we’ll be comfy-cozy / By the sea, Mr. Todd, where there’s no one nosy!
Sweeney Todd: And life is for the alive, my dear / So let’s keep living it.
Sweeney Todd, Mrs. Lovett: Just keep living it! Really living it – !
[he throws her into the oven]
Sweeney Todd: [sings] The history of the world, my love…
Mrs. Lovett: [sings] Save a lot of graves, do a lot of relatives favors.
Sweeney Todd: Is those below will serve those up above.
Mrs. Lovett: Everybody shaves, so there should be plenty of flavors.
Sweeney Todd: How gratifying for once to know…
Sweeney Todd, Mrs. Lovett: That those above will serve those down below!
Sweeney Todd: There was a barber and his wife, and she was beautiful. A foolish barber and his wife. She was his reason and his life, and she was beautiful. And she was virtuous. And he was…
Mrs. Lovett: [singing] I mean, with the price of meat what it is, when you get it, if you get it.
Sweeney Todd: Ahh…
Mrs. Lovett: [singing] Good ya got it.
Sweeney Todd: [ominously] These are desperate times, Mrs. Lovett and desperate measures are called for…
Sweeney Todd: What can I do for you today sir? Stylish trimming of the hair? Soothing skin massage. Sit sir. Sit.
Judge Turpin: [singing] You see sir a man infatuated with love. Her ardent and eager slave. So fetch the pomade and pumice stone and lend me a more seductive tone a sprinkling perhaps of French cologne but first sir I think… a shave.
Sweeney Todd: The closest I ever gave.
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