Ancestry Quote 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…

— 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.

— Harold Prince

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

— 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…

— Harold Prince

One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.

— 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…

— Harold Prince

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

— Harold Prince

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

— 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.

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— Harold Prince