Quotes About Preparation

Some people can get there in three or four games, some need eight or nine, but after 11 games, if you've been playing regularly, you're match-fit.

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

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

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.

The regular season, it's kind of like a rehearsal. That's the way I look at it.

I don't go into rehearsal for a production unless I've figured everything out.

The rehearsal process is the biggest gift you can give to the director and to yourself as an actor because it allows you to shape the character and the scenes.

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.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it.

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.'

We rehearsed our 'Scarface' to the nines. Long period of rehearsal, so that by the time we started to shoot, it was almost like doing a play. We all had a grand time doing it. It was a wonderful cast.

On a film, they'll always say there's going to be a rehearsal period, and there never is.

Next time I do a play, I want to go out of town. I don't like the idea of opening in New York. I don't have to do theatre, but if you're going to do it, you should do it well. These days, everything has to be up and running in five minutes. As a result, the rehearsal time is missing.

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

For me, rehearsal is only about blocking and pacing; it's not about performance.

There's pre-production, and the second part is when you start rehearsal. Pre-production was a very large learning curve for me.