Rehearsal Quotes · Page 9

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

— Debbie Allen

And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill…

— Stefan Molyneux

In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the…

— Christopher Walken

The rehearsal process is the biggest gift you can give to the director and to yourself as an actor because it allows…

— Michael Gracey

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

— Jerry Cantrell

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

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

At Guildhall Id sneak into a rehearsal room, play a jazz tune by Art Tatum or something, and a professor would say,…

— Marian McPartland

“Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.”

— Nuno Roque

“I’d rather live knowing I made a mistake than wondering if I could have made a difference if I’d tried. The way…

— Laura McBride

Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a…

— Lewis Mumford

I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting…

— Walt Disney

It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on…

— Richard Branson

I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down,…

— Michael Haneke

I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who…

— Hugh Jackman

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise…

— Dave Grohl

There is a sense in which the Christian's life on earth is a dress rehearsal for heaven. Not in terms of costumes…

— David Jeremiah

When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied,…

— Artie Lange

I think Julianne Moore is very, very good. I've worked with her. We did Surviving Picasso. I remember one scene we did…

— Anthony Hopkins

“ Behavior Rehearsal Behavior rehearsal is practicing your actions until you feel confident about them. The first step is to visualize the…

— Heather Moehn

But it's been funny to try and carry the through line, but I think the main thing is the relationship that the…

— Alison Pill

When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you…

— John Cleese

“Rehearsals started that very afternoon. However, I learned a little while later that because I was the last person they signed on…

— Noah Galloway

I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't…

— Sam Waterston

“Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live each day as if it's your last. The past is done. The future…

— Zane Baker

You have to run, an awful lot, on instinct. Even on 'Veep,' it's not like you get weeks of rehearsal to break…

— Brad Hall

Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during…

— Max von Sydow

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

— Judd Nelson

Life doesn't come in plot points or setups and payoffs. Life washes over you and passes.

— Glen Powell

During the day when I have a strenuous rehearsal, I may take a teaspoon of honey in a glass of juice for…

— Cyd Charisse

We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one.

— Rupert Grint

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

— Josh Hutcherson

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

— Clarke Peters

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

— Ben Whishaw

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 have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.

— Kaniehtiio Horn

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

We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film…

— Lars von Trier