Rehearsal Quotes · Page 3

Life ain't the movies.

— Dorothy Allison

This is life, not a beauty pageant.

— Jenni Monroe

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Life isn't a cabaret. It's a dive bar.

— Woody Paige

This is no dress rehearsal.

— Anonymous

Rehearsals make a huge difference.

— John Leguizamo

Thought is action in rehearsal.

— Anonymous

“Worship is a rehearsal for eternity.”

— Matt Tullos

“lucky life isn't one long string of horrors.”

— gerald stern

“3 R’s of successful life: Recurrence, Resilience and Rehearsal.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

“Life isn't a fairytale but we can make it like a fairytale”

— Lucy 'Aisy

Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

— Gary Zukav

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

— Milan Kundera

You see everyone's true colors in a rehearsal.

— Andrew Keenan-Bolger

The regular season, it's kind of like a rehearsal. That's the way I look at it.

— Al Horford

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

— Kate Winslet

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

— Peter Stone

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

— Ben Whishaw

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

— Larry Hagman

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

— John Malkovich

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

I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal.…

— Mick Jagger

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

— Matthew McConaughey

I can't tell you how wonderful it is to hop in my car and drive home after rehearsal.

— Diana DeGarmo

Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its as if in a way, like any other athletes,…

— Renee Fleming

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it…

— John Zorn

I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are…

— Gus Van Sant

I don't like working for directors that the second you're in a rehearsal they start telling you what to do - 'Don't…

— Robert Fuller

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

— Philip Baker Hall

When I was six, someone in my family gave me a yellow pencil holder that had my name printed on it. I…

— Seth Numrich

I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the…

— Zac Efron

When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want…

— Andrew Lau

You have formal rehearsal, a lot of things you don't have in movies - which is, you have to formally rehearse. You…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

The directors were often really nice and I was well behaved, so I would just sit there in rehearsal. That allowed me…

— Condola Rashad

It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal,…

— John Burdett

I remember Emilio [Estevez] and I were at John's house during the rehearsal process. And John [Huges] had mentioned he wrote the…

— Judd Nelson

I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake…

— Elizabeth Taylor

Shooting at Quentin Tarantino movie was like a masterclass in directing. Although I went back literally right into rehearsal, started shooting... while…

— Eli Roth

I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's…

— Peter Greenaway

I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising…

— Alan Keyes