Rehearsal Quotes

• 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 Dyer

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 18, 2015

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• No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mistake, Progress

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• The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

  Peter Brook

  Meaningful, Theatre

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

  Clarke Peters

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Needs

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• I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mistake, Character, Focus

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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

  Damian Lewis

  Creating, Stories, Periods

  "Shooting star". Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• 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.

  Ben Kingsley

  Numbers, Choices, Events

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• it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

  Jennifer Stone

  Self

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• The truth needs so little rehearsal.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Truth, Honesty, Needs

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• The rehearsal process in general is about trusting one another.

  George Clooney

  Process

  "George Clooney Is Having a Very Good Year". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

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• I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.

  Bill Nighy

  Fans, Looks, Like You

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• There's nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.

  Zachary Quinto

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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

  Milan Kundera

  Firsts, Unbearable, Life Is

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

  Dylan Moran

  Rooms, Remember, Comic

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• Thought is action in rehearsal.

  William Zinsser

  Positive, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

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• All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Success, Creativity, Ideas

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• If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

  Nina Arianda

  Sleep, Bad Day, Scripts

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• The more and more that you dance, the easier it gets, and the more you can push yourself and do more rehearsals.

  Jonathan Bennett

  Push Yourself, Easier

  "Jonathan Bennett From Dancing with the Stars: The Best He Has Been". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Judith Malina

  Time, Life Is, Moments

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• The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

  Wayne Rogers

  Actors, Happens

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• All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

  Donald Pleasence

  Real, Done, Periods

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• The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.

  Brian Tracy

  Fall, Night, Practice

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 30, 2013

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• Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.” It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal.

  Sam Mendes

  Good Day, Answers, Very Good

  "Sam Mendes’s 25 Rules for Directors". Interview with Bennett Marcus, www.vanityfair.com. March 11, 2014.

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• Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enjoy Life, Dresses, Express Yourself

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• 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.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Running, Long, Months

  "Que Sera, Sanaa!". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. September 8, 2011.

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