110 Quotes by 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.

I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.

Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

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.

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

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.