Rehearsal Quotes

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

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 my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

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

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

I love working with women. I think it's because I spent so much time in my brother's heavy metal band. Sweaty boys in the rehearsal room. It's nice to just be in the studio with a fragrant lady.

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsals.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

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 to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

The rehearsal process in general is about trusting one another.

Running long offers a dress rehearsal. Running long teaches the stress of lifting feet 5,000 times per hour. Running long builds confidence.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time you're on stage, it's nothing but a dress rehearsal.

I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.

I always stay out of the rehearsal room you know when they first come in. Then once they had chance to play a little bit, then I walk in. Because I've seen guys fall apart.

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.” It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends. It depends what it would be.

. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go.

I actually do a lot of Pilates and try to hike every day that I'm home. Also, I dance SO much in my shows and at rehearsals!

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

I really like our studio. It's definitely not in any way slick; it's very homemade, literally. Everyone has their own room to produce and write, and [there's a] big rehearsal space.

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

Your life is not a dress rehearsal - this is it! It's show time!

I liked the monsters, I liked them because I couldn't understand how something so scary could also be so good. It got me thinking as a very early age, and I had a lot of rehearsal.

Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even more fondly than the ones that did really well.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance

After all - life is not a dress rehearsal!