Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) Quotes

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street stopped airing in 1970.

It features Stephen Sondheim in charge of musical score, and Dariusz Wolski as head of cinematography.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom, and United States. Each episode of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) is 116 minutes long. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd, Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin, Jamie Campbell Bower as Anthony Hope, Ed Sanders as Toby, Jayne Wisener as Johanna, and Timothy Spall as Beadle.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) Quotes

Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "We could have a life we two, maybe not like you remember. Maybe not like I imagined. But we could get by."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "You --"

• (Man in street - greets Todd after competition) "Congratulations, Mr. Todd. May I ask you, sir, do you have your own establishment?"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "He certainly does. Sweeney Todd's Tonsorial Parlor, above my Meat Pie Emporium in Fleet Street."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "No denying times is hard, sir; / Even harder than the worst pies in London. / Only lard and nothing more; / Is that just revolting? / All greasy and gritty, / It looks like it's molting, / And tastes like; / Well, pity / A woman alone / With limited wind / And the worst pies in London. / Ah sir, / Times is hard. Times is hard."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Trust me, dearie, it's gonna take a lot more than ale to wash that taste out. Come with me; we'll get you a nice tumbler of gin, eh?"

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "He had this wife, you see, / Pretty little thing. / Silly little nit / Had her chance for the moon on a string -- / Poor thing. Poor thing. / There was this Judge, you see, / Wanted her like mad. / Every day he'd send her a flower, / But did she come down from her tower? / Sat up there and sobbed by the hour, / Poor fool. / Ah, but there was worse yet to come -- / Poor thing."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Here we are. Hot out of the oven."
• (Johnny Depp) "What is THAT?"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "It's priest. Have a little priest --"
• (Johnny Depp) "Is it really good?"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Sir, it's too good, at least. Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh -- so it's pretty fresh."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Mr. T, you didn't."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "You're barking mad. Killing a man what done ya no harm."
• (Johnny Depp) "He recognized me from the old days. Tried to blackmail me. Half me earnings."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Oh, well that's a different matter then. For a moment there I thought you lost your marbles."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Ugh. All that blood. Poor bugger. Oh well."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Well, waste not, want not."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Everything I did I swear I thought was only for the best."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Hold it. / Bless my eyes; / Fresh supplies."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "How's about it, dearie? / Be here in a twinkling."
• (Ed Sanders) "Is that a pie / Fit for a king --"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Just confirms my theory."
• (Ed Sanders) "A wonrdous sweet --"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Toby --. God watches over us."
• (Ed Sanders) "And most delectable thing?"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Didn't have an inkling --"
• (Ed Sanders) "You see, ma'am --"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Positively eerie --"
• (Ed Sanders) "Why there is no meat pie --"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Toby. / Throw the old woman out."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "We could have a life, us two. Maybe not like I dreamed. Maybe not like you remember. But we could get by."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "A customer."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Wait. What's your rush? / What's your hurry? / You gave me such a -- / Fright. I thought you was a ghost. / Half a minute, can'tcha? / Sit. Sit you down. Sit. / All I meant is that I / Haven't seen a customer for weeks. / Did you come in for a pie, sir? / Do forgive me if me head's a little vague -- / What is that? / But you'd think we had the plague -- / From the way people -- / Keep avoiding -- / No you don't. / Heaven knows I try, sir. / But there's no one comes in even to inhale -- / Right you are, sir. Would you like a drop of ale? / Mind you, I can't hardly blame them."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "So what are we gonna do about the boy?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Send him up."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "No, Mr. T. Surely one's enough for today. Besides, I was thinking of hiring the lad to help me run the shop. Your poor knees aren't what they used to be."
• (Johnny Depp) "All right."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Of course, we're gonna have to stock up on the gin. Boy's drinking like a sailor."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "I was only thinking of you."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Mrs. Mooney has a pie shop, / Does a business, but I noticed something weird: / Lately all her neighbor's cats have disappeared. / Have to hand it to her, / What I calls / Enterprise / Popping pussies into pies. / Wouldn't do in my shop; / Just the thought of it's enough to make you sick. / And I'm telling you, them p*****cats is quick."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Barker, his name was. Benjamin Barker."
• (Johnny Depp) "What was his crime?"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Foolishness."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "With the price of meat, wot it is, when you get it, if you get it."
• (Johnny Depp) "Ah."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Good ya got it."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "That lad is drinking me out o' house an' home."

Jamie Campbell Bower as Anthony Hope

• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Mr. Todd. I'm running away with Johanna. She'll marry me Sunday."
• (Alan Rickman) "You -- there is indeed a higher power to warn me thus in time."
• (Alan Rickman) "Johanna, elope with you? I'll make sure that neither you nor any other man shall ever set eyes in her again."
• (Alan Rickman) "And as for you, barber -- that's all too clear what company you keep. Serve them well and hold their custom, for you'll have none of mine."

• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me --"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Mrs.Lovett, son."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "A pleasure, ma'am."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Mr.Todd, there's a girl who needs my help. Such a sad girl, and lonely but beautiful to and --"
• (Johnny Depp) "Slow down, son."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Yes, I'm sorry. This girl has a guardian who keeps her locked away, but then this morning she dropped this"
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "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."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Oh, this is very romantic."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Yes."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "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."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Bring her 'ere, love."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Thank you, ma'am."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Mr.Todd?"

• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "You wait for him here. I'll return with a coach in less than half an hour. Don't worry no one'll recognize you. You're safe now."
• (Jayne Wisener) "Safe? So we run away and then all our dreams come true?"
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "I hope so."
• (Jayne Wisener) "I've never had dreams. Only nightmares."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Johanna -- when we're free of this place, all the ghosts will go away."
• (Jayne Wisener) "No, Anthony. They never go away."

• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "I feel you, Johanna, / I feel you. / Do they think that walls can hide you? / Even now I'm at your window. / I am in the dark beside you, / Buried sweetly in your yellow hair, / Johanna --"
• (Johnny Depp) "And are you beautiful and pale, / With yellow hair, like her? / I want you beautiful and pale, / The way I've dreamed you were, / Johanna --"
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Johanna --"
• (Johnny Depp) "And if you're beautiful, what then, / With yellow hair, like wheat? / I think we shall not meet again, / My little dove, my sweet Johanna --"
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "I'll steal you, Johanna --"
• (Johnny Depp) "Goodbye, Johanna. / You're gone, and yet you're mine. / I'm fine, Johanna, / I'm fine."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Johanna --"

• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Where are you taking her? Tell me or I'll --"
• (Alan Rickman) "You'll kill me, boy? Well here I stand."

• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "I have sailed the world, beheld its wonders, from the Dardanelles to the mountains of Peru. But there's no place like London."
• (Johnny Depp) "No, there's no place like London."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Mr. Todd?"
• (Johnny Depp) "You are young. Life has been kind to you. You will learn."

• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Is everything alright, Mister Todd?"
• (Johnny Depp) "I beg your indulgence, Anthony. My mind is far from easy. In these once familiar streets I feel shadows -- everywhere --"
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Shadows?"
• (Johnny Depp) "-- Ghosts."

Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd

• (Johnny Depp) "At last. My arm is complete again."

• (Johnny Depp) "These are my friends. / See how they glisten. / See this one shine, / How he smiles in the light. / My friend, my faithful friend. / Speak to me, friend. / Whisper, I'll listen. / I know, I know- / You've been locked out of sight all these years- / Like me, my friend. / Well, I've come home / To find you waiting. / Home, and we're together, / And we'll do wonders, won't we?"

• (Johnny Depp) "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."

• (Johnny Depp) "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."

• (Johnny Depp) "These are desperate times, Mrs. Lovett and desperate measures are called for --"

• (Johnny Depp) "And who may it be said is your intended, sir?"
• (Alan Rickman) "My ward -- and pretty as a rosebud."
• (Johnny Depp) "Pretty as her mother?"
• (Alan Rickman) "Wha -- what was that?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Nothing, sir. Nothing. May we proceed?"

• (Johnny Depp) "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 -- naive. / There was another man who saw / That she was beautiful, / A pious vulture of the law, / Who with a gesture of his claw / Removed the barber from his plate. / Then there was nothing but to wait / And she would fall, / So soft, / So young, / So lost, / And oh, so beautiful."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "And the lady, sir, did she succumb?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Oh, that was many years ago -- / I doubt if anyone would know."
• (Johnny Depp) "I'd like to thank you, Anthony. If you hadn't spotted me, I would be lost on the ocean still."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Will I see you again?"
• (Johnny Depp) "You might find me, if you like, around Fleet Street, I wouldn't wonder."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Until then, my friend."

• (Johnny Depp) "Pretty women."
• (Alan Rickman) "Silhouetted."
• (Johnny Depp) "Stay within you."
• (Alan Rickman) "Glancing."
• (Johnny Depp) "Stay forever."
• (Alan Rickman) "Breathing lightly."
• (Johnny Depp) "Pretty women."
• (Alan Rickman) "Pretty women."

• (Johnny Depp) "The history of the world, my love --"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Save a lot of graves, does a lot of relatives favors."
• (Johnny Depp) "Is those below serving those up above."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Everybody shaves, so there should be plenty of flavors."
• (Johnny Depp) "How gratifying for once to know --"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "That those above will serve those down below."

• (Johnny Depp) "And though I'll think of you, I guess, until the day I die, I think I miss you less and less as every day goes by."

• (Johnny Depp) "What may I do for you today, sir? A stylish trimming of the hair? A soothing skin massage? Sit, sir, sit."
• (Alan Rickman) "You see, sir, a man infatuate 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."
• (Johnny Depp) "The closest I ever gave."

• (Johnny Depp) "You have a room over the shop, don't you? If times are so hard, why don't you rent it out?"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "People think it's haunted."
• (Johnny Depp) "Haunted?"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Yeah. And who's to say they're wrong? You see, years ago, something happened up there. Something not very nice."

• (Johnny Depp) "What is this?"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "What is this?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Smells like piss."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Smells like, eww."
• (Johnny Depp) "Looks like piss."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "I wouldn't touch it if I was you, dear."
• (Johnny Depp) "This is piss. / Piss with ink."

• (Johnny Depp) "And though I'll think of you, I guess, / Until the day I die, / I think I miss you less and less / As every day goes by, / Johanna --"
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Johanna --"
• (Johnny Depp) "And you'd be beautiful and pale, / And look too much like her. / If only angels could prevail, / We'd be the way we were, / Johanna --"
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "I feel you, Johanna --"
• (Johnny Depp) "Wake up, Johanna. / Another bright red day. / We learn, Johanna, / To say / Goodbye --"
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "I'll steal you --"

• (Johnny Depp) "And if I never hear your voice, / My turtledove, my dear, / I still have reason to rejoice: / The way ahead is clear, / Johanna --"
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "I feel you, Johanna --"
• (Johnny Depp) "And in that darkness when I'm blind / With what I can't forget / It's always morning in my mind, / My little lamb, my pet, / Johanna -- / You stay, Johanna, / The way I've dreamed you are. / Oh look, Johanna, / A star. / A shooting star."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "Buried sweetly in your yellow hair --"

• (Signor Adolfo Pirelli) "Mr.Todd?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Signor Pirelli."
• (Signor Adolfo Pirelli) "Call me Davy. Davy Collins is the name when it isn't professional."

• (Signor Adolfo Pirelli) "I am Adolfo Pirelli, da king of da barbers, da barber of kings, e buon giorno, good day. I blow you a kiss. And I, the so famous Pirelli, I wish-a to know who has-a da nerve-a to say my Elixir is piss. Who says this?"
• (Johnny Depp) "I do. I'm Mr. Sweeney Todd from Fleet Street. I have opened a bottle of Pirelli's Elixir and I say to you, it is nothing but an errant fraud, concocted from piss and ink. And furthermore, "Signor", I have serviced no kings, yet I wager that I can shave a cheek with ten times more dexterity than any street mountebank."

• (Johnny Depp) "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."

• (Johnny Depp) "For what's the sound of the world out there?"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "What, Mr. Todd? What, Mr. Todd? What is that sound?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Those crunching noises pervading the air."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Yes, Mr. Todd. Yes, Mr. Todd. It's all around."
• (Johnny Depp) "It's man devouring man, my dear."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "And/Then who are we to deny it in here?"

• (Johnny Depp) "Have charity towards the world, my pet."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Yes, yes, I know, my love."
• (Johnny Depp) "We'll take the customers that we can get."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "High-born and low, my love."
• (Johnny Depp) "We'll not discriminate great from small. / No, we'll serve anyone --"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Meaning/We'll serve anyone, / And to anyone at all."

• (Johnny Depp) "The history of the world, my pet --"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Oh, Mr. Todd. Ooh, Mr. Todd. Leave it to me."
• (Johnny Depp) "Is learn forgiveness and try to forget."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "By the sea, Mr. Todd we'll be comfy-cozy / By the sea, Mr. Todd, where there's no one nosy."
• (Johnny Depp) "And life is for the alive, my dear / So let's keep living it."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Just keep living it. Really living it;."

• (Johnny Depp) "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 --"

• (Johnny Depp) "I can guarantee the closest shave you'll ever know."

Jayne Wisener as Johanna

• (Jayne Wisener) "Sir, a gentleman knocks before entering a lady's room."
• (Alan Rickman) "Indeed, he does, but I see no lady. I told myself the sailor was lying, that my Johanna would never betray me, never hurt me so."
• (Jayne Wisener) "Sir, I will leave this place."
• (Alan Rickman) "I think that's only appropriate since you no longer find my company to your liking."
• (Alan Rickman) "We shall provide you with new lodgings. Until this moment I have spared the rod. But the ungrateful child has broken my heart. When you've learned to appreciate what you have done, perhaps we shall meet again. Until then, think on your sins."

Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin

• (Alan Rickman) "You're in a merry mood today, Mr. Todd."

• (Alan Rickman) "Mr. Todd?"
• (Johnny Depp) "At your service -- an honor to receive your patronage, my lord."
• (Alan Rickman) "Do you know me, sir?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Who in this wide world does not know the great Judge Turpin?"
• (Alan Rickman) "These premises are hardly prepossessing. And yet the Beadle tells me you're the most accomplished of all the barbers in the city."
• (Johnny Depp) "That is gracious of him, sir."

• (Alan Rickman) "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?"
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "I think there's been some mistake."
• (Alan Rickman) "I think not. You gandered at my ward, Johanna. You gandered at her. YES, sir, you gandered."
• (Jamie Campbell Bower) "I meant no harm."
• (Alan Rickman) "Your meaning is immaterial. Mark me. If I see your face again on this street, you'll rue the day you were born."

Timothy Spall as Beadle

• (Timothy Spall) "Thank you, your honor, just the sentence we wanted."
• (Alan Rickman) "Was he guilty?"
• (Timothy Spall) "Well, if not, he'd certainly done something to warrant a hanging."
• (Alan Rickman) "What man has not?"

• (Signor Adolfo Pirelli) "To shave-a da face/ To trim-a da beard/ To make-a da bristle/ Clean like a whistle/ Dis is from early infancy/ Da talent give to me/ By God./ It take-a da skill/ It take-a da brains/ It take-a da will/ To take-a da pains./ It take-a da pace/ It take-a da graaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace."
• (Timothy Spall) "And the winner is Todd."

Ed Sanders as Toby

• (Ed Sanders) "Ladies and gentlemen, / May I have your attention, puh-lease? / Are your nostrils aquiver and tingling as well / At that delicate, luscious ambrosial smell? / Yes they are, I can tell. / Well, ladies and gentlemen, / That aroma enriching the breeze / Is like nothing compared to its succulen source, / As the gourmets among you will tell you, of course. / Ladies and gentlemen, / You can't imagine the rapture in store -- / Just inside of this door."
• (Ed Sanders) "There you'll sample / Mrs. Lovett's meat pies, / Savory and sweet pies, / As you'll see. / You who eat pies, / Mrs. Lovett's meat pies / Conjure up the treat pies / Used to be."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Toby."
• (Ed Sanders) "Coming."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Ale there."
• (Ed Sanders) "Right, mum."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Quick, now. / Nice to see you, dearie, / How have you been keeping? / Cor, me bones is weary. / Toby. One for the gentleman -- / Hear the birdies cheeping; / Helps to keep it cheery -- / Toby. / Throw the old woman out. / -- What's my secret? / Frankly, dear; forgive my candor; / Family secret, / All to do with herbs. / Things like being / Careful with your coriander, / That's what makes the gravy grander."

• (Ed Sanders) "Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir --"
• (Johnny Depp) "Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through."
• (Ed Sanders) "Yes, get Pirelli's. / Use a bottle of it. / Ladies seem to love it --"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Flies do, too."

Add or Update Quotes

If you have a quote to add or change and want to let us know, please fill in the form below. Include the time in the film/video if possible so we can find it.