Rehearsal Quotes - Page 13

• If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

  Ian Mckellen

  Character, Vices, Directors

  "At 76, Actor Ian McKellen Embodies An Older Sherlock In 'Mr. Holmes'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 20, 2015.

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• . . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go.

  Susan Piver

  Letting Go, Mother, Giving

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• It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.

  John Burdett

  Safety, Imagination, Finals

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• I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are going to be either positioning themselves or how they will be saying their words. When people goof during the first take, it usually looks realistic.

  Gus Van Sant

  Real, People, Trying

  Source: screenrant.com

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• A good film to me is like lightning in a bottle. I used to think that meant hit and run. But then I've changed my definition about what lightning in a bottle means. I think it means that you wait for that surprising moment that you really didn't expect would happen, as good as it may have gone in rehearsal.

  Don Scardino

  Running, Mean, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I generally enjoy the rehearsal process because that's where you can share your ideas, get your thoughts and feelings out and see whether or not they're going to land, whether or not people are going to agree with them, particularly the director. So you can sort out in that process any elements that need to be sorted out before you're on the set, and of course that saves time and it also makes everyone more comfortable working together.

  Nicolas Cage

  Land, Ideas, People

  "Knowing" Press conference, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2009.

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• On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after which I do the last draft, which gives me a chance to incorporate anything the actors have come up with during the rehearsal period, so I'm very inclusive as a writer.

  John Cleese

  Writing, Giving, Actors

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2009.

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• When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good, friendly, tolerable relationships to start with, for the simple reason that you don't have to spend 24 hours figuring out how sensitive they are, and can you give them a line reading, or how do you have to give them direction.

  John Cleese

  Reading, Good Friend, Simple

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Night, Vintage, Dresses

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• Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

  Tom Stoppard

  Giving, Ego, Special

  Source: deadline.com

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• The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

  Carol Shields

  Loneliness, Weather, Comfort

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• I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

  Bruce Beresford

  Ideas, Long, Theatre

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• A lot of people don't really understand what rehearsal's about. People are afraid they're gonna leave it in the dressing room, or you're gonna shoot your wad in rehearsal.

  Jeff Bridges

  People, Rooms, Dressings

  "Roger Deakins". Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2015.

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• Theatre is so much fun because you do theatre and you have a month of working it out on your own, and then a month of rehearsal, so by the time you get to stage I know where I'm failing and I know where I'm succeeding and your boundaries are pretty concrete.

  Chris Pine

  Fun, Theatre, Months

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You live with a writer [a mother], and you grow up with their words, their kind of fantasies, and I'd pretty much seen every single one of her plays, and been in a lot of rehearsal rooms, so it felt very natural and easy. It was lovely to get an opportunity to do that professionally as well.

  Keira Knightley

  Mother, Growing Up, Opportunity

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Shooting at Quentin Tarantino movie was like a masterclass in directing. Although I went back literally right into rehearsal, started shooting... while I was doing it I had to write my Grindhouse trailer and I added two days of shooting. My brother was producing Hostel and the Grindhouse trailer and I was like: "Gabe, just figure this out!"

  Eli Roth

  Brother, Writing, Two

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The importance of rehearsal is maybe you want to talk about how the scene's going to be designed, how it's going to be staged, all of those things. It's all about preparation, and deciding what mutually you don't want to do, rather than necessarily what you do.

  Sam Mendes

  Preparation, Want, Scene

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Light, Bangs, Television

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• I find myself having rehearsal chats, in my head, for conversations I need to have. Sometimes they are arguments, things I need to get off my chest, award acceptance speeches. Ultimately, it clears my mind, helps me focus my thoughts, and sometimes alleviates the need for the real conversation.

  Michael Lomenda

  Real, Acceptance, Awards

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• I write. I have read a great deal. I enjoy books. I like the wit of languages. Even French I like. I like to be able to think in different modes. I like to be able to use the language a great deal and carry on rehearsals in French.

  Twyla Tharp

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.

  Bernie Mac

  Fun, Comedian, Dresses

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• And then we came here for three weeks of band rehearsal with [music consultant/member of the band "Sloan"] Chris Murphy. And I grew up in Toronto during Sloan's heyday, so like I was like "Oh my god!" And so that was pretty cool.

  Alison Pill

  Heyday, Three, Band

  Source: collider.com

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• I mean I feel like we've shot all these different movies. Like the first 2 weeks of shooting was all Steve Stills apartment and band rehearsal, you know? And so it was like this tiny little group of people and small set comparatively and it just looked like a Toronto apartment. And then we sort of kept ramping up further and further until now we're here in this giant like craziest set I've ever seen with LCD crazy lights that go....you know?

  Alison Pill

  Crazy, Mean, Light

  Source: collider.com

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• I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

  Charles Garfield

  Running, Skills, Important Events

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• 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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