All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

— Peter Brook

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

— James Wolk

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…

— Sanaa Lathan

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

— Damian Lewis

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

— Marcia Gay Harden

What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great…

— Lisa Jakub

Simon McBurney on "All My Sons" on Broadway - we had an eight-week rehearsal period and I really enjoyed the way that he prepared…

— Katie Holmes

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

— Peter Stone

The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with most film and television roles.

— Charlie Cox

So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's…

— Benjamin Harkarvy

I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal, oddly enough,…

— Angela Lansbury

But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.

— Debbie Allen

Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or…

— Philip Baker Hall

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

— Peter Stone

It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is…

— Anthony Trollope