Rehearsal Quotes - Page 14

• I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great - it travelled into immediate communication.

  Sam Waterston

  Communication, Inspiration, Yale

  "New Again: Sam Waterston". Interview with Martin Torgoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

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• 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

  Music, Play, Air

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• My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Education, Nice, Play

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• Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.

  Rider Strong

  Stress, Knowing, Cabins

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• If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

  Marian Burros

  Kitchen, Dining, Dresses

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• Work is your life, it’s not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days.

  Mario Testino

  May, Week, Enjoy

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• I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

  Ike Turner

  Teaching, Two, Guy

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• The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Fall, Night, Schedules

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• An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Two, Orchestra, Firsts

  "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Sports, Kids, Heart

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• I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Sometimes, Fingers, Tempo

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• I loved dancing the tango at the 1994 Nurses Ball Talent Show. I thought I'd be dancing with Brad Maule (Tony) but the writers revved up the passion by pairing me with Leigh McCloskey, my lover Damian. During dress rehearsal, for a goof, Leigh and Brad ran into each others arms instead!

  Jacklyn Zeman

  Passion, Nurse, Dancing

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• Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Life, Skulls, Dresses

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• 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.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Sacrifice, Class, Dancing

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• Then it's settled," Harriet said. "We shall work out the smaller roles later.""What about you?" Elizabeth demanded."Oh, I'm going to be the goddess of the sun and moon.""The tale gets stranger and stranger," Daniel said."Just wait until act seven," Miss Wynter told him."Seven?" His head snapped up. "There are seven acts?""Twelve," Harriet corrected, "but don't worry, you're in only eleven of them. Now then, Miss Wynter, when do you propose that we begin our rehearsals? And may we do so out of doors? There is a clearing by the gazebo that would be ideal.

  Julia Quinn

  Moon, Doors, Work Out

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• 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.

  Alfred Molina

  Two, Cameras, Actors

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

  Christine Lahti

  Two, Important, Actors

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• The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

  Lily Rabe

  Soccer, Brother, Focus

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

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

  Patrice Leconte

  House, Preparation

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About “Intimate Strangers”". Interview with Ryan Mottesheard, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising sun of a new moral dedication in America, or we're going to lose the struggle for that moral renewal, throw away the basic principles on which our life and civilization is based, and head toward a new century that will make the 20th century look like a dress rehearsal for evil.

  Alan Keyes

  Struggle, Dedication, Civilization

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• 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.

  Donna Murphy

  Summer, Kids, Two

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• Let's not hold anything back in 2015. We only have one life to live and this is not a dress rehearsal!! #‎ allornothing

  Christine Caine

  Dresses, One Life To Live

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• We are all from different cultures. Heath's [Ledger] Australian, really. I'm from here. Ang's [Lee] from China. But I think Ang gets very close in preproduction and rehearsals. And then he allows his actors - I don't think scared of actors, but I think he's scared of getting in on the scenes he's watching. The space he's watching. So he just totally disconnects from you while you're shooting.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Space, Different

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.

  Michael Gambon

  Talking, Actors, Said

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• We had a lot of rehearsals for the original Twilight to get the family to learn each other and experience each other, so we could all be like a family. We spent a lot of time together.

  Peter Facinelli

  Twilight, Together, Originals

  Source: collider.com

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