Rehearsing Quotes - Page 2

• Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

  Emmitt Smith

  Dream, Real, Mean

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• I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Mother, Thinking, Long

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.

  Dana Carvey

  Night, Years, Two

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• When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.

  Marion Cotillard

  Fun, People, House

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• I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Character, Thinking, Film

  "Kirsten Dunst Relies on Intuition and Years of Experience to Serve the Role". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. November 2, 2011.

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• We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.

  Zac Efron

  School, Eight, Musical

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• I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

  Brendan Fehr

  Fans, Bigs

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• I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.

  Jennifer Garner

  Team, Feelings, Together

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• The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

  Ang Lee

  Way, Scene

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• Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Memories, Imagining Yourself, Brain

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• Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

  Peter Shaffer

  Play, Flesh, Process

  Peter Shaffer (2011). “Equus”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Actors, Directors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2004.

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• I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

  Donna Mills

  Character, Cutting, Things In Life

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• When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'

  Kellan Lutz

  Moon, Laughing, Kind

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• Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.

  David Lynch

  Talking, Actors, Moments

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• While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Play, Progress, Trying

  "The Quality of Mercy".

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• Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.

  John Updike

  Thinking, Curiosity, Trying

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• I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.

  Clive Owen

  Actors, Too Much, Dialogue

  Source: collider.com

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• I had the kid [on "Fences" ] who understudied me so I could stand back and think about shots so he had to learn the blocking and everything. I'd come in early sometimes, and they 'd be in there rehearsing and working on their stuff. I didn't want them to feel like, "Oh these are people who can't be touched." We're all working actors; we're all trying to get better.

  Denzel Washington

  Block, Kids, Thinking

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Soccer, Fighting, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• You have moments where you do appearances and people recognize you and you get fan letters, but that's after you've put in long days rehearsing, filming and for us kids - going to school on the set.

  Ken Osmond

  School, Kids, Long

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• With chamber music you can get people who work on the music for months, rehearsing it every day for a couple of hours, and if they get it in a different way than you do, which is entirely possible, it's not as a result of anything other than their good musicianship.

  Nico Muhly

  Couple, People, Different

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The band that I was I auditioning for, they were just all like, dreads and stuff, so I did look kind of out of place. But I had learned the material and it sounded cool as f**k when we were rehearsing.

  Tony Palermo

  Looks, Band, Stuff

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• I played a security guard, and I think it was in the State Department. This was my first acting role, really, and I remember rehearsing it on the couch with my girlfriend at the time. I had a real problem with saying the word "incendiary." Most of my rehearsal was spent on pronouncing the word "incendiary."

  Kevin Nealon

  Girlfriend, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Strong, Memories, Dancing

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