Harold Prince Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no one in this movie. I didn't go to film school. I'm like the person who should have never made this film. But I just decided to put one foot in front of the other. I was writing film articles for magazines at the time. I convinced an editor from one of the magazines that I was working for to give me a shot to do a piece on Roger. This was an excuse to go meet him.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of reading about slavery in a book or hearing about it in class. It became something that swept people along.
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But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.
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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.
