The best Quotes by Harold Prince

The best Quotes by Harold Prince

Harold Smith Prince (born Harold Smith; January 30, 1928 – July 31, 2019), commonly known as Hal Prince, was an American theatre director and producer known for his work in musical theatre.

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

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

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 way - a buck here, a buck there.

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I'll make it anywhere
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I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
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Top of the heap

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In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

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We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

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Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

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Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

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I don't wanna f*ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!

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I remember Hell's Kitchen when you couldn't walk west of Ninth Avenue without getting knifed. Now it's Chelsea with better gays.

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Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.

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It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

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I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city.

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Being a single girl in New York... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

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People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

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No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

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In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

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New York is my favorite city in the world.

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I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

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New York in spring and autumn is absolutely beautiful, but the winter is absolutely depressing.

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When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.

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You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

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The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.

Marty, the future isn't written. It can be changed... you know that. Anyone can make their future whatever they want it to be.

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You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

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The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

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Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

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Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

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Experience Past

Timon: "You gotta put your past behind ya. Look kid, bad things happen, and you can't do anything about it, right?"
Simba: "Right."
Timon: "Wrong!"

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The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck.

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The past never stops, it reviews the present.

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The past is always with us, Tyler. Now, you can try and run away but it's always there.

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The past is a wave. Keeps returning.

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