I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on… — Harold Prince Anticipate 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… — Harold Prince Born Copy Share Image
I've never been able to understand where great artists come from. — Harold Prince Able 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 Ask Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was. — Harold Prince Back 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.… — Harold Prince Any 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 Emotional Copy Share Image
Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not. — Harold Prince Criticism 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 Dangerous 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… — Harold Prince Chamber 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… — Harold Prince Back 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… — Harold Prince Amount Copy Share Image
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take… — Harold Prince Book Copy Share Image
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… — Harold Prince Buck Copy Share Image
I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough… — Harold Prince Big Copy Share Image
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… — Harold Prince Ancestry 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 always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like. — Harold Prince Always Copy Share Image
A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run. — Harold Prince Business 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 Analyzing Copy Share Image
I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can… — Harold Prince Always Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you? — Harold Prince Contemporary Copy Share Image
I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different. — Harold Prince Coats 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
I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding… — Harold Prince Basically Copy Share Image
