Harold Prince Quotes

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• A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
• Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
• Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.
• Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.
• I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
• I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I…
• 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.
• I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
• I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
• I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
• I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
• I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.
• I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
• I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
• I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
• I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but…
• I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
• I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

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