Quotes About Rehearsal

Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

Life is not a dress rehearsal'. There were no rewrites, no retakes,

There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.

Life is not rehearsal, each day is a new show , no repeat no rewind, so give your best shot in all your acts, as the show goes on and on...

But certain favourite parts are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

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.

We never rehearse the full time. Yesterday we rehearsed only ten minutes. I don't want him to rehearse 30 minutes [of silence]. Why? Because from my performance experience, I realize that you absolutely have to rely on the energy of the public. If you just sit [in] the empty space for the 30-minute rehearsal, this is pure torture.

Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.

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

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

Love is the rehearsal of Paradise.

I was cast as a drunkard, and at my first rehearsal I came staggering onto the stage, then swayed about a bit. The director held up his hand. "Stop. What are you doing, Michael?" "I'm drunk in this scene," I explained, failing to hide my irritation that it had not been apparent.

Your attention please. This is not a rehearsal. This is not a drill. This is your life. Make the most of it. Become a hero. Bring the ultimate cosmic journey – your journey – to its appointed end. Become God.

But a man's identity (or that of a community) is nothing more than an unbroken rehearsal of contingencies, each at the mercy of circumstance and each significant in proportion to its familiarity.

a man's identity (or that of a community) is nothing more than an unbroken rehearsal of contingencies, each at the mercy of circumstance and each significant in proportion to its familiarity.

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, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

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

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Even a professional musician doesn't trust the microphone, that's why he has to test it many times at first.

Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.

So I said to Arnold: "I'm cutting out of this madhouse." So they said: "Wait just a couple of minutes, because we're going to have a rehearsal." You'd think they were being married on television...