Harold Prince Quotes

One must not expect anything in these times, but be ready for everything.

I don't go into rehearsal for a production unless I've figured everything out.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

How can you prepare for something when you don't know what it's going to be?

Every competition is different... You can't plan for everything that happens.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

You can never plan the future by the past.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

History is only a feeble light, for the rubrics were meant to answer future problems unimagined and unimaginable

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from these surprises is to diversify.

I've had some shows where I really plan out what I'm going to say. Then I've had other shows where I'm like, 'Take a sip of the Ole Smoky Moonshine and just let it be natural and cross your fingers that you say the right things.'

In chess, you gotta come up with a strategy. I made a lot of plans in my life. 'I'ma do this, I'ma do that, this is gonna happen, that's gonna happen.' And a lot of stuff don't go as planned. You really gotta act on events as they unfold. That's how I compare chess to life.

Sometimes it's good to be ready for the unpredictable. I'm glad that I can go through unpredictable situations. It's a good thing.