You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years. — Harold Prince Couple Copy Share Image
I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not. — Harold Prince Criticism Copy Share Image
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater. — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage. — Harold Prince Advantage Copy Share Image
I'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea.… — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of… — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you… — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of… — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director. — Harold Prince Cinema Copy Share Image
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director. — Harold Prince Cinema Copy Share Image
Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art. — Harold Prince Art Copy Share Image
I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run. — Harold Prince Business Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you? — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons. — Harold Prince Artistic Copy Share Image
What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater… — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater… — Harold Prince Absurd Copy Share Image
It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
