Quotes About Rehearsal

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

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.

What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it.

There is the moral of all human tales:    Ã¢â'¬â"¢Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,    First Freedom, and then Glory - when that fails,    Wealth, vice, corruption - barbarism at last.    And History, with all her volumes vast,    Hath but one page

I saw a doe and a fawn but Sonia chased them away, roaring as if they meant us harm. I rehearsed my entire life and I heard my heart for the first time. In the morning I had fantasies of love and laughter, even creating the image of Duane and my father riding horseback up the drawn toward me.

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.

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

The two things an actor dreads most are children and dogs.

People always ask about learning all of your lines as an actor, and it's generally the easiest part of the job.

I'm understanding theatre a bit more. I've learned that you go over and over stuff. There's a big element of back-story: where have the characters been before, where have they come from?

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.

Every night, I sit with an assistant director and learn my dialogues.

When you have a play, you have to be on every night.

Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.

Life is not a dress rehearsal - nor do you have an understudy.

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind...cast-off and everyday clothing.

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

It is important for an actor to learn how to face a live audience.

I don't trust people to accept who I am in process. I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world—so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

I personally like a little rehearsal, not if I'm gonna have a super emotional scene you wanna have it be a fresh thing.

There's nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.