110 Quotes by Harold Prince

All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.

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.

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

I really don’t spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I’m not stopping.

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 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 am enjoying it.

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.

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only – which is the biggest only – teach you things that see the future. And they’re probably as valuable as any of your successes.

I love big, bold, truthful theater – the tradition of Victorian theater.