Rehearsal famous quotes
07-17-2025
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The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.
-- Adam Garcia -
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
-- Alfred Jarry -
Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.
-- Anais Nin -
When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.
-- Andrew Lau -
The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.
-- Angela Lansbury -
I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.
-- Anna Friel -
I've been quoting the book [on Peter Sutcliffe] constantly in rehearsals. Some members of the cast have stated their disapproval that it should even have been written. Some of the women have expressed more - disgust and anger. What are they saying? They'd prefer not to know, not to understand? They'd prefer certain areas of life to be censored? Isn't that partly what breeds the Sutcliffes and the Nilsens?
-- Antony Sher -
The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.
-- Augusto Boal -
In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.
-- Ben Whishaw -
I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
-- Ben Whishaw -
George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
-- Bernadette Peters -
But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal. You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes - it's all about capturing the moment - in the moment, you know.
-- Bill Condon -
I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.
-- Brad Dourif -
Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.
-- Brett Ratner -
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
-- Brian Eno -
Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front.' She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer.
-- Caity Lotz -
Praise is the rehearsal for our eternal song.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Let's not hold anything back in 2015. We only have one life to live and this is not a dress rehearsal!! #‎ allornothing
-- Christine Caine -
In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.
-- Christopher Walken -
In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind of the same thing. You're figuring it out and hopefully the camera is pointed at you when you're doing it.
-- Christopher Walken -
For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
-- Damian Lewis -
All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.
-- Donald Pleasence -
Life ain't no rehearsal, the cameras always rolling.
-- Drake -
If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.
-- Dylan Moran -
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
-- Geezer Butler -
Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.
-- Gene Tierney -
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
-- George S. Kaufman -
You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair.
-- Gregory Hines -
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
-- Harold Prince -
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe -
I'm heavily involved in the creative with choreographer Christopher Scott. I go to rehearsals with 'Glee' and then practice with LXD till about midnight.
-- Harry Shum, Jr. -
What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
-- Harvey Fierstein -
The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong.
-- Henry Mintzberg -
If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.
-- Hildegard Knef -
To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.
-- Ice Cube -
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
-- Idries Shah -
I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
-- Jack Lemmon -
Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?
-- Jaco Pastorius -
The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.
-- Jane Asher -
During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
The roadwork is just rehearsal for that DVD you're going to film a year later.
-- Jeff Dunham -
it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.
-- Jennifer Stone -
Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!
-- Jerry Hall -
Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
-- Jimmy Page -
Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.
-- John Banville -
There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.
-- John Kander -
Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
-- John Leguizamo -
You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
-- John Malkovich -
Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.
-- John Zorn -
There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.
-- Josh Hutcherson -
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience
-- Judd Nelson -
Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.
-- Judith Malina -
Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.
-- Julian Sands -
During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.
-- Julie Benz -
I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal!
-- Kate Winslet -
There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.
-- Keeley Hawes -
I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.
-- Kelly Reilly -
I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.
-- Kurtwood Smith -
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
-- Larry Hagman -
I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.
-- Laurie Metcalf -
An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.
-- Leonard Slatkin -
James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.
-- Leslie Caron -
I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.
-- Lily Allen -
You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.
-- Lucinda Bassett -
In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.
-- Marcia Gay Harden -
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
-- Maria Callas -
Work is your life, it’s not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days.
-- Mario Testino -
Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.
-- Mike Watt -
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
-- Milan Kundera -
If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
-- Patrice Leconte -
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.
-- Peter Brook -
We rehearsed our Scarface to the nines. Long period of rehearsal, so that by the time we started to shoot, it was almost like doing a play. We all had a grand time doing it. It was a wonderful cast.
-- Robert Loggia -
The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.
-- Roy Wood -
Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.†It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal.
-- Sam Mendes -
The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.
-- Sanaa Lathan -
I'm quite the nagger too. I nag at the others when their chatting makes our rehearsals finish later than scheduled.
-- Seohyun -
And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.
-- Stefan Molyneux -
I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford -
Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? … Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals,
-- Terry Wogan -
I think there's a percentage [of the audience] that don't realize, that don't know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It's more of a ... it's not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.
-- Tim Allen -
When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: "Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!"
-- Tina Fey -
It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.
-- Tony Hale -
Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction.
-- Ulric Neisser -
The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
-- Wayne Rogers -
I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
-- William Hurt -
I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out
-- William Hurt -
People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
-- William Hurt -
I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.
-- William Petersen -
You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.
-- William Shatner -
It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.
-- Yanni
