Hal Price quotes

“There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.”
-- Hal Price

#Needs Quotes #Done Quotes #Never Quit Quotes

“I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good.”
-- Hal Price

#Fall Quotes #People Quotes #Wish Quotes

“I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there.”
-- Hal Price

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“It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.”
-- Hal Price

#Musical Quotes #Cost Quotes #Influence Quotes

“Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

“Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.”

“I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.”

“A busybody's work is never done.”

“I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.”

Source : "Aasif Mandvi talks about acting, comedy and Middle Eastern Corresponding". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. November 02, 2011.

“I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.”

“Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.”

“We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.”

“Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.”

“I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.”