Prince Quotes

I just love kids. I always have.

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

Sports also teaches you that it's about the team, and the better your teammates are, the better they make you.

I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage.

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

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.

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

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable.

You can't click through a book, you can't hyperlink and jump out of it. It requires a little bit more of a regular engagement.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."

I want to be someone who is known for portraying themselves honestly. I try to avoid aggrandizing things I've done.

I used to think that a guy telling me I'm "not like other girls" was a compliment and I've now flipped to seeing that for the back-handed compliment that it is.

I've always been a draw-er, all throughout elementary school I was the "kid who draws".

Women are the guardians of morality.

Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

If you listen to certain things then you can hear music everywhere. But it's your perspective on 'what do I listen to, why do I listen, what's going on.' And then you have music.

The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in the music.

I look at Canada like a second home.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

A lot of people probably say I'm stupid, and they're probably right, because there are people who take days off who are still in the league, and I'm not.

I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck.

I'm still working out. It keeps me feeling good about things.

I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely.

I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second.

If I could even do that [playing] in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball.

It's easier for me to accept that I can't play anymore because I literally gave it all I got. That allows me to be a little bit more at peace.

I'd like to help out in any way I can, especially with the younger guys in the minor leagues. But as far as setting something up, we haven't really talked about it.

I guess you need days off, but I just didn't want them.

Honestly, right now, I don't want to be around baseball. Not that I don't like it. But I'm having fun right here, hanging around my family and watching my kids' games.

I've always said, "You make a lot of money in Major League Baseball, and it's all guaranteed, so what do you have to lose by going all out?" .

It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short." I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber at all, but sometimes it has to end different.