Best Rehearsal Wisdom

264 Rehearsal quotes by 237 unique authors

During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was. — Jeanne Moreau
All the real work is done in the rehearsal period. — Donald Pleasence
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there… — Harold Prince
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me… — Alan Rickman
I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their lines,… — Pauly Shore
Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with… — Paul Simon
Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen. — Gene Tierney
Life is not a dress rehearsal. — Rose Tremain
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. — Peter Ustinov
Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a… — Ville Valo
I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals. — Ben Whishaw
Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement. — Neil Young
Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You… — John Zorn
There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines. — Keeley Hawes
In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the… — Stephen Lang
Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate… — Susanna Kaysen
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? — Milan Kundera
There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or… — Ian Mcewan
There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning,… — Milan Kundera
It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing… — Gary L. Blackwood
I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if… — Walt Disney
This is no dress rehearsal. — Phil McGraw
Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your… — Stephen King
I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if… — Michael Ondaatje
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… — Anne Fortier

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