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title: "4 Audiences Quotes By Harold Prince"
description: "4 Audiences quotes by Harold Prince. Plus more from Harold Prince and more Audiences sayings from other authors."
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> [I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/i-really-like-reaching-out-and-seeing-the-audience-they-re-potential/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/harold-prince-9151_about_i-really-like-reaching-out-and-seeing-th_2285092.jpg)

> [You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/you-could-argue-that-sweeney-todd-was-romantic-if-you-looked-closely/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1df/harold-prince-9151_argue_you-could-argue-that-sweeney-todd-was-ro_2487871.jpg)

> [Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/audiences-are-very-willing-to-be-taken-somewhere-and-to-ask-an/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3b/harold-prince-9151_agree_audiences-are-very-willing-to-be-taken-s_2656471.jpg)

> [Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/audiences-are-quite-happy-to-be-astonished-and-they-don-t-care-who/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/harold-prince-9151_astonished_audiences-are-quite-happy-to-be-astonish_2987215.jpg)

## More by Harold Prince

> [I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/i-like-to-do-everything-you-can-possibly-do-before-you-go-into/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/it-s-a-terrible-shame-if-you-re-born-the-brightest-guy-in-your-class/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/i-ve-never-been-able-to-understand-where-great-artists-come-from/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/i-feel-so-much-more-comfortable-when-i-m-working-on-material-which/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/one-thing-is-certain-we-can-t-go-back-the-musical-will-never-be-the/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/the-truth-of-the-matter-is-that-i-have-lasted-a-long-time-and-with-it/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/i-was-nine-i-saw-orson-welles-in-julius-caesar-it-was-involving/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/criticism-is-valuable-and-self-congratulatory-experiences-are-not/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [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 the foot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/i-m-a-pragmatic-man-i-ll-veer-on-the-dangerous-side-because-i-love/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/everything-can-t-be-a-postage-stamp-sized-project-everything-can-t-be/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/i-don-t-look-back-i-look-forward-and-plan-new-shows-that-s-really/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/collaboration-is-just-really-a-group-of-people-getting-in-a-room-with/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/i-would-like-to-see-more-new-productions-of-new-material-by-new/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/when-i-was-a-25-year-old-kid-i-raised-260-000-for-my-first-show-the/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

> [I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-prince/i-don-t-know-why-the-guys-with-the-big-money-don-t-find-five-terrific/)

[Harold Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-prince/)

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