Cameron Mackintosh Quotes

• An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Old Buildings, Smell, Soul

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• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Thinking, Wonderful, Forgotten

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• The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Giving, Musical, Buzz

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• What musicals need is a new me.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Needs, New Me

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• My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Thinking, Average, Tunes

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• Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Circumstances

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• I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Goal, Producers

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• I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Taken, Shows, Gamble

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• I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Knows, Factors

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• It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Cost, Regulation, Entrepreneurial

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• Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Thinking, Discipline, Achieve

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• My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Dream, Country, Islands

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• If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Tired, People, Too Much

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• I've never had a very great public life.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Public Life

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• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Glorious, Position, Packages

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• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Exceptional, Position, Knows

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• I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Debt

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