Quotes About Focus

For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.

I missed my homecoming for a rehearsal.

I feel that once you go into rehearsal, you need to focus on the show in the room.

I've never done this level of physical preparation for something. Particularly for 'Rogue One' where I was training every day and doing kung fu rehearsals on a daily basis. But that's part of the reason I wanted to do it, because it was very different from what I've done before.

Rehearsals make a huge difference.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Get your emotions out of the way in the rehearsals.

When you're doing a one-man play, you maybe rehearse for a month, and then you're just doing it an hour or two a night.

We're very much perfectionists, so when we're putting on a huge show and want to play to the best of ability, we rehearse intensely. And I have a guitar pretty much in my hand for at least five hours before doing a show. I'm just noodling and mucking around and working on some of the songs here and there.

I like to rehearse to the point we're in the ballpark, and expect that we're only going to get one proper take, more or less.

I don't really rehearse, because I don't really step into action until I'm forced to. The only way I prepare is just by memorizing it backward and forward so that when I get in the room, I can become the character and not think about the lines so much.

I like to rehearse a lot. Before I hit the stage, I listen to the songs that I would perform and make sure I execute everything.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

When you allow an animator to focus on a portion of the film and really understand the arc of the scene, what's happening with the characters, they can make choices all along the way that reinforce the main points of the scene. They really get to know what's happening.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

The Apple mentality is really about creating focus, quality and a voice that people understand and can relate to.

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

Everything motivates me to do my work. Has anyone seen me in any commercial or in anything that is not related to the films? No, because filmmaking and acting is my only work.

The journalist in me always loved relating and socialising and connecting with people, but there came a point where I needed to make a decision to stop that being my focus and really focus on acting - an audience are only really going to believe me as a character to an extent if they don't know me as Lily that well.

I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures.