Harold Prince Quotes

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Harold Prince

Profession : Producer

Birth : January 30, 1928

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

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 love the place.

Harold Prince

I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.

Harold Prince

Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.

Harold Prince

There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

Harold Prince

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

Harold Prince

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

Harold Prince

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

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