Rehearsal Quotes - Page 15

• We get 80 years, maybe at the most 100. Trillions of years in eternity. This life is preparation for the next. This is the warm-up back, this is the dress rehearsal, this is the get ready, this is the first lap around the track before the real race begins because it is in eternity.

  Rick Warren

  Real, Race, Years

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• [John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that.

  Judd Nelson

  Directors, Happens, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I actually do a lot of Pilates and try to hike every day that I'm home. Also, I dance SO much in my shows and at rehearsals!

  Tinashe

  Home, Trying, Pilates

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I got the job [in Moana project] about six months before we started rehearsals. No, seven and a half months before we started at the Public, and so, it's been my ocean of calm throughout the Hamilton phenomenon.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Jobs, Ocean, Six Months

  Source: deadline.com

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• I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

  Sonia Braga

  Actresses, Scared, Feels

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

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• After all - life is not a dress rehearsal!

  Richard Branson

  Dresses, Life Is

  "How To Turn Your Idea Into Reality – The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Nathan Chan, foundr.com. May 30, 2018.

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• Simon McBurney on "All My Sons" on Broadway - we had an eight-week rehearsal period and I really enjoyed the way that he prepared us to go onstage. It was different than anything I've done and it was a different way of being directed, so I tried to take my different experiences of these directors and give those to my actors.

  Katie Holmes

  Son, Eight, Different Experiences

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.

  Anita Roddick

  Morning, Thinking, Dresses

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• At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.

  Thomas Beecham

  Play, Orchestra, Concerts

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• I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends. It depends what it would be.

  Scott Speedman

  Guy, Would Be, Depends

  Source: collider.com

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• For a long time I didn't know what I wanted or what I loved to do. Friends had that blessing and I remember thinking when I would have my turn. Then, in 9th Grade I sort of fell into playing Danny Zuko randomly in that years GREASE themed portion of the dance show. The moment I hit the stage I think something in me knew. Even in rehearsals. I'd fallen in Love.

  E.J. Bonilla

  Blessing, Thinking, Years

  "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.

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• Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.

  Peter J. Daniels

  Night, Dresses, Life Is

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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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• An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went home and my boyfriend plunked out the notes for me, and I had to learn and prepare that song just so I could learn and know how that feels. I've never had that kind of detail in a rehearsal process. Jason Moore is absolutely unbelievable.

  Sarah Steele

  Song, School, Home

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, "It may appear that I'm going to go haywire, but I'm not." I always map out what I'm going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised.

  Paul Reubens

  Maps, May, Meetings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Theater is all about the rehearsal process. In fact, I think a lot of times opening night there's a mixed sadness because you're finished with a lot of people's favorite part of the process, which is finding the character and discovering it, and then you get to live it.

  Debra Winger

  Character, Sadness, Night

  "Why are Debra Winger and Sam Elliott doing a multi-cam sitcom for Netflix?". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 30, 2016.

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• In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

  James Wolk

  Moving, Character, Play

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• I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.

  Mick Jagger

  Practice, Mind, Levels

  "Mick Jagger On The Apocalyptic 'Gimme Shelter'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, Melissa Block, www.npr.org. November 16, 2012.

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• There are bits at the table read that destroy, so much so that we can't wait to do it in taping. And then, no reaction. And then there are times when I can't get the right read on a line in rehearsal, and then the audience howls at it. The strange thing is I still don't know why it happens like that. It's not like afterwards I think, 'Now I know why that worked!'

  Simon Helberg

  Thinking, Waiting, Lines

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot], more than getting together a week beforehand.

  William H. Macy

  Together, Fans, Week

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

  John Malkovich

  Movie, Actors, Littles

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• Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.

  Stephen King

  Fall, Reading, Eye

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

  Julie Taymor

  Two, People, Three

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