Rehearsal Quotes - Page 7

• My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Play, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The roadwork is just rehearsal for that DVD you're going to film a year later.

  Jeff Dunham

  Dvds, Years, Film

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.

  Andrew Lau

  Actors, Goes On, Want

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• I don't like rehearsal.

  Charlize Theron

  Source: collider.com

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• In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.

  Christopher Walken

  Running, Cameras, Repeats

  Source: m.espn.go.com

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• Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front'. She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer.

  Caity Lotz

  Moving, Dancer, Singers

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

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• The NAACP should have riot rehearsals.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Should Have, Naacp, Riot

  "Jane Fonda Urges FCC to Jettison Rush Limbaugh" by Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 12, 2012.

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• My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Dad, Player, Practice

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• When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: "Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!"

  Tina Fey

  Mirrors, Dresses, Hey

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.

  Bernadette Peters

  One Day, Connections, Window

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.

  Ice Cube

  Jobs, Laughing, Matter

  Source: collider.com

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• In theater, there's a lot of discipline involved in doing eight shows a week for a year and a half. It's nice to be able to bring some of that bag of tools with you over to the film world, where you don't have the rehearsal, you don't have an audience. You don't have a month of rehearsal to examine these words, and you meet the guy who's going to play your brother the morning that you shoot the scene. So you need a bag of tools.

  William Sadler

  Morning, Brother, Nice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think there's a percentage [of the audience] that don't realize, that don't know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It's more of a ... it's not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.

  Tim Allen

  Hard Work, Thinking, Realizing

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• I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.

  Rashida Jones

  School, Law, Judging

  "Rashida Jones and Chris Pratt Talk Parks and Recreation". Interview with Brian Gallagher, www.movieweb.com. October 30, 2009.

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• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

  Bono

  Morning, Wake Up, Noble

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• Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

  Jimmy Page

  Years, Wonderful, Hours

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• I never seem to know what's going on... Right from the very start, my life has been strange. I think I know what happened... I must have missed all the rehearsals.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Thinking, Strange, Happened

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• Rehearsels, actually." "Rehearsals?" "For the-" Oh,no. "-musicale." The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who could maintain a romantic thought when faced with the memory-or the threat-of a Smythe-Smith musicale.

  Julia Quinn

  Memories, Men, Musical

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• George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I remember each and every one of them: the Deads-men, the Deadmen, the Undeads-men, the Undeadmen, the Rots, the Rotters, the Dirts, the Dirty Ones, the Grayboys, the Eaten Brains, the Eating Brains, the Mersey Beaters, the Mersey Beaten, the Bloodless, the Graves, the Headstones, and the Liverpools of Blood. Paul ripped off John's right arm and used it to slap John across the face, then he said, "Those're horrible, mate, just horrible, y'know.

  Alan Goldsher

  Dirty, Angel, Men

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• After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs.

  Anne Fortier

  Suicide, Poison, Afternoon

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Taken, Mean, Secret

  Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started.

  Walt Disney

  Mean, Dresses, Want

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• It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing our best to say the proper lines and make the proper moves, but not quite comfortable yet in the parts we've been given. Still, like players who trust that -despite all evidence to the contrary- the whole mess will make sense eventually, we keep on going, hoping that somehow things will work out for the best.

  Gary L. Blackwood

  Real, Moving, Player

  Gary L. Blackwood (2003). “Shakespeare's Spy”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

  Keeley Hawes

  Theatre, Lines, Knows

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• Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

  John Zorn

  Mean, Preparation, Sound

  "Interview hits dissonant chord with John Zorn" by Lee Hildebrand, www.sfgate.com. August 26, 2010.

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