Rehearsal Quotes - page 3

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death. (Geezer Butler)
When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on. View quote
Michael Richards
On finishing early at a rehearsal the London Symphony Orchestra leader Hugh Maguire said to Monteux: "Oh Maitre it is so nice to finish early. My wife will be so surprised." Monteux replied: "Be careful. You might be surprised!" View quote
Pierre Monteux
What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change. View quote
Harvey Fierstein
Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement. View quote
Neil Young
All ritual has a notable tendency to reduce itself to a rehearsal of formulas. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Today, the picture is more black. War would riot only mean a threat to our independence, it may mean the end of civilisation and even of human life. There is a force loose in the world whose potentiality for evil no man truly knows. Even in practice and rehearsal for war the effects may well be building up into something of unknown horror. View quote
Sukarno
Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it. View quote
Mike Watt
I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love. View quote
Bernie Mac
Your life is not a dress rehearsal - this is it! It's show time! View quote
Denise Austin
A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters. (Kim Cattrall)
Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal. View quote
Michael Fox
I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing. View quote
Brad Dourif
But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal. You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes - it's all about capturing the moment - in the moment, you know. View quote
Bill Condon
I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf. View quote
Jack Lemmon
Well, television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time. View quote
Evan Peters
I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal. View quote
Alfred Molina
The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually. View quote
Anne-Marie Duff
The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character. View quote
Adam Garcia
In terms of the series, we worked separately, getting together in rehearsal to beat out the material. View quote
Bruce McCulloch
It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company. (Bryn Terfel)
To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it. View quote
Chuck Mangione
But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period. View quote
Debbie Allen
I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied, where I've had to go on with no rehearsal. View quote
Donna Murphy
Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea. View quote
Eberhard Weber