Quotes and Sayings About Rehearsal
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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
