Quotes About Preparation

I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends.

You have to run, an awful lot, on instinct. Even on 'Veep,' it's not like you get weeks of rehearsal to break out what's going on in the scenes.

I write in the booth and memorize in rehearsals.

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 are one of my favourite things in the world.

I think that no number of rehearsals can guarantee the outcome of a live show.

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.

I always get less nervous when we get into rehearsals because it just gives me a better idea of how it's gonna go.

Sometimes films have no rehearsals - you don't have real rehearsals on the set because the day is so dominated by the schedule.

If you ever watch me at theatre rehearsals, you will know what a bad actress I am. I am bad... bad... bad... and then, by opening night, it all just falls into place.

I have worked with Salman a lot of times and have choreographed him earlier also. He doesn't do rehearsals; he never comes for that. He is the only actor who has never opened the door for rehearsals.

I'd be happy to have run rehearsals for a month, but it gets expensive to do that.

Get your emotions out of the way in the rehearsals.

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like 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.

I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and you rehearse like crazy, but after opening night, the director's not there anymore, you know. He gives you notes during previews after each performance, but opening night, you're on your own.

I like to rehearse before blocking.

I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.

I don't do a lot of rehearsal. I don't like rehearsals. I rehearse the day or morning. I spend one hour and a half with all the actors, and we go over the scenes, and we change it and change the dialogue, and we do a lot of things to it, but prior to shooting, I don't really rehearse.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.