Rehearsal Quotes

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.

One of the hardest things I've had to learn is to let it go. At the end of the show or the end of the rehearsal day to just take a deep breath and say, "Alright, that was it. That was the day."

Don't wait for miracles. Your whole life is a miracle. Live it up and dare to leave an impact. There is no rehearsal.

I worked with Sidney Lumet years ago, and we had a long rehearsal process, and he would tape out the entire set on the stage, so I stole that from him.

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal!

After rehearsals or a performance, you're wired and tired and it takes a while to calm down.

This is no dress rehearsal.

The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.

I personally like a little rehearsal, not if I'm gonna have a super emotional scene you wanna have it be a fresh thing.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.

The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs.

Theater will always be my first love. The time and dedication that goes into the rehearsal process with the cast and crew is something that TV/Movie acting does not offer.

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

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.

I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.

I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

I don't like rehearsal.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity.

I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied, where I've had to go on with no rehearsal.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.

I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.

There's very few directors that know what that rehearsal's for. And often it's just about calming down the director. If he could see it or she sees it, she goes oh, it's going to be okay.

I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.

It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

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.

I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who don't believe in it and some actors who prefer not to rehearse.

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.

In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

People treat life as though it's the dress rehearsal for some big show. It's not. This is it.

A lot of people don't really understand what rehearsal's about. People are afraid they're gonna leave it in the dressing room, or you're gonna shoot your wad in rehearsal.

The roadwork is just rehearsal for that DVD you're going to film a year later.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

Sports is a bloodless rehearsal of confrontation, and everyone shakes hands or high fives or fist bumps at the end to show that everything is okay.

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

Rehearsals make a huge difference.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that.

Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence.

Nobody could disappear 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.

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.