Rehearsal Quotes - Page 10

• I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.

  Anna Quindlen

  Journey, Years, Giving

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• I think Julianne Moore is very, very good. I've worked with her. We did Surviving Picasso. I remember one scene we did together. She had to have a nervous, a mental, breakdown in this one scene. I didn't have many lines. I just had to make sure I knew I came in on cue all right. And I was just watching her walking though the rehearsal. I thought I know what she's doing, "This is going to be terrific." So they said, "Are you ready" and she said, "Yeah," "Ok, roll the camera." And all in one take.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Together, Cameras

  Interview with Helen Keier, www.ign.com. February 10, 2001.

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• Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Suicide, Girl Interrupted, Kitchen

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.37, Vintage

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• On indies it's hard to do, but in rehearsals, you make mistakes in rehearsal. It's really hard rehearsing a play or what rehearsal you get on any movie. That's where you get to make your mistakes, and you make big ones. So when you shoot [the movie] or you finally get the play in shape and do it, the mistakes are out of the way. If you're not afraid to make mistakes, then there is no writer's block or actor's block.

  Jeff Daniels

  Mistake, Block, Play

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• 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

  Emotional, Trying, Rooms

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• I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Lying, Eight, Week

  "The Daniel Day-Lewis Nine Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 17, 2009.

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• Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

  Jerry Cantrell

  Military, Two, Together

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• A temptation is the universe's gracious way of allowing a soul to evolve without creating negative karma. In other words, a temptation is like a magnet that draws to awareness, negativity, that would otherwise create negative karma if it remained unconscious. A temptation is a dress rehearsal for a negative karmic act.

  Gary Zukav

  Karma, Creating, Negativity

  Source: www.williamjames.com

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• There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

  Michael Emerson

  Block, Roles, Lines

  "Actor Michael Emerson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.

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• In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.

  Ben Whishaw

  Preparation, Shooting, Film

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance

  Paul Taylor

  Thinking, Living My Life

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• My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

  David Copperfield

  Dream, Future, Dresses

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• (About plan during Texas Relays) Have fun, be healthy, and enjoy the Relays for what it is. I'll just try to use the crowd and get some adrenaline and have a good time; just work on some things in this environment. This is almost a championship environment when you get down to it- with all of the fans, the energy and the adrenaline you get lining up. It's good rehearsal for the bigger stages and it's the season opener. This is the starting point. We're just looking for some starting points and to use some adrenaline to our advantage.

  Trey Hardee

  Fun, Athlete, Texas

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• Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Real, Athlete

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• A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.

  Maggie Grace

  Beautiful, Kissing, Blow

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• People treat life as though it's the dress rehearsal for some big show. It's not. This is it.

  Jane Seymour

  People, Dresses, Treats

  Jane Seymour (1986). “Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living”, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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• It's very difficult to find the time or the money for people to organize rehearsals for some movies. It staggers me how little preparation often goes into these scenes which are difficult and complicated. You think, "God, it's crazy. I've never met this person before and here I am having to work at how to do a whole performance on the set." It was great to have a few days of just talking to Michael [Caine] and Daniel [Barber] and thinking about the characters and the relationship between them before we started shooting.

  Emily Mortimer

  Crazy, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

  Morris Chestnut

  Looks, Pieces, Toronto

  "Press Conference Interview With Morris Chestnut And Monica Calhoun On The Best Man Holiday". Interview with Ben Kenber, wegotthiscovered.com.

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• In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Theater, Periods, Knows

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• My earliest influences would definitely be my father, just seeing him play in different bands and going to his shows and going to the rehearsals. You know what I'm saying, it was the typical story of a son looking up to his dad. So the years that my father was around, my father was my biggest influence.

  Jon Connor

  Dad, Father, Son

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• While directing in theater that the actors will - I don't know if it's competitiveness or what it is, but they love to make each other laugh. They love to impress each other in rehearsal. They'll try something for a reaction. But in film, you're very often not all together in the room at the same time. You're shooting one day, somebody else is shooting the next. It's a totally different dynamic.

  Israel Horovitz

  Laughing, Trying, One Day

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• But you have to trust your instincts. Because you're not going to try it 20 different ways during rehearsal. You'll try it two or three different ways, maybe, but then you've got five other scenes you're shooting that day. You've got to keep going.

  Kevin Kline

  Two, Trying, Different

  "How Kevin Kline Helped Israel Horovitz’s ‘My Old Lady’ Film Debut". Interview with Joe Leydon, blogs.indiewire.com. September 18, 2014.

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• What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Home, Writing, Kids

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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.

  Thomas Horn

  Character, Thinking, Body

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• And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.

  Stefan Molyneux

  War, Childhood, Dresses

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