Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity.

Charlize Theron

I don't like rehearsal.

Brad Dourif

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.

Brett Ratner

Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.

Alison Pill

I would say my favorite was just the beginning of the movie like doing all the rehearsal stuff. It's been amazing to see the rest of it happen but it happens so piecemeal. And Edgar sort of has the whole movie edited in his head already, so we're just sort of matching to what he has.

I don't think we've had a rehearsal where someone hasn't cried.

Dylan Moran

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

Angela Lansbury

The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.

Anna Friel

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

Andrew Lau

When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.

George Clooney

The rehearsal process in general is about trusting one another.

All of the situations we encountered, we'd anticipated because of all the testing and rehearsals we did. We were never taken by surprise.

George S. Kaufman

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

Robert Wilson

I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.

Jonathan Bennett

The more and more that you dance, the easier it gets, and the more you can push yourself and do more rehearsals.

Elisabeth Moss

When you audition for things, there's pressure to go in there with a complete performance, and it's kind of unfair because, if you get it, you'll have rehearsal and talk about it, and you'll have plenty of time with the script. So, for me, I really do feel like an audition is a sketch of what you might do.

Maria Callas

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

Maria Bello

There's usually not a lot of rehearsal when you do films.

Mike Watt

Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

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

Michael Cera

I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.

Milan Kundera

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

Jake Gyllenhaal

You have formal rehearsal, a lot of things you don't have in movies - which is, you have to formally rehearse. You have to know your back story, discuss it, and almost everybody onstage has to know each other's [story], so that when it comes time to actually do it, you can throw it all away. That's the way I like to - and I didn't realize until very recently - that's the way I like to prepare for movies.

Yanni

It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.

Wayne Rogers

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

Marcia Gay Harden

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

Stephen Sondheim

The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.