Rehearsal Quotes - page 5

Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or kids, then at least during the rehearsal period for five or six weeks, you kind of say goodbye to everybody. (Philip Baker Hall)
Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day. View quote
Rick Derringer
My first memories of life were in rehearsal; that's why I can sleep through anything. View quote
Robert Glasper
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. View quote
Robert Loggia
For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it. View quote
Ron Moody
We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one. View quote
Rupert Grint
When I was six, someone in my family gave me a yellow pencil holder that had my name printed on it. I still have it, and when I'm doing table work in rehearsal, I use it to carry my highlighters and other writing utensils. I love it. View quote
Seth Numrich
In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to. View quote
Stephen Lang
The rehearsal process is the most important thing to me, so working with colleagues who are effusive, thoughtful, young and vivacious is really inspiring as a musician. View quote
Susanna Phillips
The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience. View quote
Sanaa Lathan
I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't. (Sasha Alexander)
I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends. It depends what it would be. View quote
Scott Speedman
It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it. View quote
Tony Hale
I would go into a place that was quiet and isolated and think about how my character would feel in the situation, considering who he was and what he had been through. I would think about that even up to 30 minutes. And when I felt the character was in my body and I had left, I could walk onto set or into rehearsal. View quote
Thomas Horn
When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing. Now I like to really spend the time and figure it out, and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work. View quote
William Fichtner
I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh. View quote
Yael Stone
I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time. View quote
Ewan McGregor
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another. View quote
Jennifer Garner
You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting. View quote
John Malkovich
The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience. View quote
Ben Kingsley
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked. (Alphonse Karr)
Acceptance that this is not a rehearsal. That this is it. View quote
William Gibson
I've been on projects before where there's no rehearsal, and you walk in on set and that's literally the first time you've ever played the character, and then I've had times where there's been three weeks of rehearsal. I like both. View quote
Josh Hutcherson
There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting. View quote
Josh Hutcherson
I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films. View quote
Julie Taymor