Quotes About Performance

SFL is based on the Mixed Martial Arts. It is a proper sport with proper set of rules and regulations. There is no scope of stage-managing the things.

A fit player has good and bad times during a season, and you have that in rehab, too.

You can kind of run drills and practice, rehab behind closed doors as much as you can, but there's nothing that simulates being in front of a live audience with live TV cameras.

The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with most film and television roles.

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

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

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

I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play is rehearsal.

Rehearsal for film is tough. Until the camera's there, everything changes.

You never learn to act in front of a camera. You never learn anything in front of a camera. But you learn to act in a rehearsal room with a good play and a good cast and a good director.

Avishai my brother always says to the audience, 'If you weren't here, it would just be a rehearsal.' So it's important to me to acknowledge and engage them. I know that they are there for me, and I'm humbled by that.

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

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

We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one.

In terms of the series, we worked separately, getting together in rehearsal to beat out the material.

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

What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.

We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal.

To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it.

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.

I've done a lot of fight scenes, and I always find that it's better that they be meticulously choreographed. You want them to look as real as possible, but you don't want anyone to get hurt. So I believe in really working it out in rehearsal, and when you get to the set, just go for it 100 percent.