Quotes About Retakes

You'd need to polish your skills as you only get one chance. In cinema, retakes are possible but in theatre, there are none.

I hate performing on live television. It's so scary, because, if you screw up, you don't really get any retakes. So when I do television shows now, having been on 'Idol' really helps me mentally to just kind of take it all in. So I learned a lot from it.

In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.

Though films need retakes, I have always hated them because they tend to become mechanical.

When you're doing a film, you're on a set and you have retakes and you have time to get it right. And on 'SNL' it's just go, go, go. If you can't read the cue cards or miss your mark, you're just left to sort of screw up. So there's a lot more pressure doing a live TV show.

Life is not a dress rehearsal'. There were no rewrites, no retakes,