Rehearsal Quotes

Life is not a dress rehearsal. (Rose Tremain)

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

Milan Kundera

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

Donald Pleasence

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

Patrice Leconte

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

William Petersen

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind . . . cast-off and everyday clothing.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It's a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.

Yanni

The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

Rush Limbaugh

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wayne W. Dyer

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

Peter Ustinov

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process. (Brian Eno)

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.

Martin Landau

When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.

Andrew Lau

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

Anna Friel

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

Bruce Beresford

George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.

Bernadette Peters

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

Christine Lahti

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

Clarke Peters

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

Debbie Allen

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

Damian Lewis

You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air. (Dick York)

You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair.

Gregory Hines

I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.'

John Benjamin Hickey

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

John Zorn

Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.

Judith Malina

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