Harold Prince Quotes
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.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
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I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were always women fronting bands and playing guitar or backing up and playing drums or bass in a band. That probably contributed to my belief in myself to go out and perform for people.
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Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there...the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.
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But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
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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.
