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264 Rehearsal quotes by 237 unique authors
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All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.
— Craig Ferguson
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What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
— Harvey Fierstein
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
— Larry Hagman
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I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up…
— Michael Haneke
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
— William Hurt
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There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.
— Josh Hutcherson
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
— Eddie Izzard
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I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and…
— Jim Jarmusch
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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune…
— Alphonse Karr
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At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
— George S. Kaufman
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I'm present at all pyrotechnical…
— Akshay Kumar
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When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's…
— Artie Lange
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Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then…
— Denis Leary
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Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the…
— Denis Leary
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Rehearsals make a huge difference.
— John Leguizamo
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
— Damian Lewis
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I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
— John Malkovich
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You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time,…
— John Malkovich
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I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
— Matthew McConaughey
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I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.
— Ewan McGregor
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The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes…
— Henry Mintzberg
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If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.
— Dylan Moran
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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,…
— Dylan Moran
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