It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and… — Harold Prince 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 the stage… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
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. — 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 to make… — Harold Prince 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
The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not. — Harold Prince 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 the foot. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
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… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
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. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
