Quotes About Rehearsal

I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

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

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

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

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How good people's decisions are under the fast-moving, high-stress conditions of rapid cognition is a function of training and rules and rehearsal.

Don't wait for miracles. Your whole life is a miracle. Live it up and dare to leave an impact. There is no rehearsal.

A person who is financially rich can only hire many people to teach him as how to deliver a speech from the dais or in public after many rehearsals, but his words can never impress or connect with the bright minds in the audience until the thoughts are delivered from his own soul to reach up to others' heart.

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Once I got so worried because I had to hit my costar with a glass bottle that I began crying.

The script looks huge when you first get it, but you just have to go home and drill the lines out. The more you read it, the shorter it gets. I usually read it at least four times.

Any good script makes the job of an actor easier.

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

Judi Dench is incredible. She takes acting to another level. She is a thorough professional. She is always smiling and cheerful. She painstakingly rehearses with co-stars and allows you to be natural.

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.

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 rehearsal place.

It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take.

People don't remember what they read, what they hear, or even what they see. If they're lucky, people remember what they do, but they're not very good at that either. We remember what we rehearse.