Quotes About Preparation

In a way, as an actor, you do all the preparation and then you want to forget it and just play the scene. As a director, you can't forget it because somebody will remind you that you forgot something. But you can know your plan well enough that you still have a certain amount of freedom.

You can never know your lines well enough, and you better listen.

The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.

I try desperately to try and figure out how they'd react to different scenarios. That's part of what the DM's job is: to try and know their players well enough to where they can build encounters, challenges, and be like, 'I think they would do this in this scenario, so I will go ahead and prepare a few options based on this.'

Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being.

Every time a fighter steps into the ring, he's borrowing against his future well-being.

We want an economy that grows health and wellbeing, not debt and carbon emissions. An economy that prepares and protects us from shocks to come, rather than making them worse. An economy that shares resources to meet all our needs, regardless of background. An economy that lets us live.

The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.

If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.

There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the modern, western, secular mind set. They don't believe evil exists. They are exactly the ones who are in danger of getting blindsided by evil. Because they're not prepared for it.

I try to keep my closet organized by color and category so that it's not only aesthetically pleasing but practical as well - it really makes getting ready so much easier.

The first album didn't become successful until the second was practically written.

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.

I learned early that it's very important to approach every single kick you attempt, even those in practice, as if it were in a game.

We like to think that we practice so hard that the games are easy.

I advise everyone to build a house at 19. It's such good practice.

You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.

I can practice all I want, but if I don't have the right equipment for my kind of game it's not going to mean very much.

You've got to do it in practice first.

I save the race for the race and I don't let it all out in practice.

Ideally, you want to have some guys get that rest... Because after 70-something games, you've practiced enough.

My nerves tend to dissipate once the match starts. When I know I've practiced as much as I can and I do my best and leave it all out there, I feel OK no matter what happens.

That's a part of being a good football team and being good players is when it's time to go play and turn what you've practiced, what you've watched, into the game reality, we've got to go do that.