Rehearsal Quotes - Page 3

• Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Strong, Home, Rooms

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.2

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• Don't wait for miracles. Your whole life is a miracle. Live it up and dare to leave an impact. There is no rehearsal.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Impact, Waiting, Miracle

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• I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

  Alan Rickman

  Jobs, Home, Feet

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• My first thought about acting, growing up here in New York, was theater, and I feel like I need to force myself to go get my ass kicked in a rehearsal room and do one of those plays at some point.

  Paul Dano

  New York, Growing Up, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love rehearsals and I love creating a character, sticking with it until you have something to tell. It's always different though. Sometimes a director will tell you from day one what they want. Then you throw in your idea.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Character, Ideas, Creating

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their lines, and the whole process of starting to work with the other actors and the director, and doing rehearsals, and going to the location, and going through wardrobe.

  Pauly Shore

  Reading, Missing, Directors

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2010.

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• In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind of the same thing. You're figuring it out and hopefully the camera is pointed at you when you're doing it.

  Christopher Walken

  Order, Cameras, Kind

  "Seven Psychopaths Q&A: 10 Minutes in Heaven With Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell". Interview with Andy Greenwald, grantland.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I personally like a little rehearsal, not if I'm gonna have a super emotional scene you wanna have it be a fresh thing.

  Zulay Henao

  Emotional, Littles, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

  Peter Stone

  Littles, Far Away, Scene

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

  Adam Garcia

  Character, Mean, Chance

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

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• I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.

  Vik Sahay

  Long, Bricks, Form

  Source: collider.com

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• You have formal rehearsal, a lot of things you don't have in movies - which is, you have to formally rehearse. You have to know your back story, discuss it, and almost everybody onstage has to know each other's [story], so that when it comes time to actually do it, you can throw it all away. That's the way I like to - and I didn't realize until very recently - that's the way I like to prepare for movies.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Stories, Way, Realizing

  "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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• Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

  Julie Delpy

  Writing, Editing, Acting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation. I like to just go out and do it. Of course, that doesn't mean actors are free to do whatever they like, they're always being directed.

  Patrice Leconte

  Mean, Preparation, Actors

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm a complete control freak. We worked a lot on the pace and where to put the silences. We choreographed the gestures and movements. We had a lot of rehearsals and a lot of takes. Also, there's something special that comes out of those two actors: he's water and she's fire.

  Eran Kolirin

  Fire, Two, Water

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hands, Waiting Around, Arms

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

  Gary Zukav

  Negativity, Temptation, Dresses

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 22, 2016

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• Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with discovering those characters for themselves, and just setting an overall emotional tone for the piece as opposed to necessarily getting things up on their feet or staging scenes.

  Kate Winslet

  Character, Emotional, Feet

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

  Stephen Lang

  Real, Skills, Imagination

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• Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.

  Mike Watt

  Life Is

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• It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by using the process, and as I say, the process is to learn during rehearsals, and that's how you'll do it.

  Angela Lansbury

  Ideas, Trying, Lines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end up imprinting on it - you hear their voices, you hear their rhythms. You can't help but to begin to write toward them during the rehearsal process.

  Lynn Nottage

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Love is the rehearsal of Paradise.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Love Is, Paradise

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• When you audition for things, there's pressure to go in there with a complete performance, and it's kind of unfair because, if you get it, you'll have rehearsal and talk about it, and you'll have plenty of time with the script. So, for me, I really do feel like an audition is a sketch of what you might do.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Auditions, Might, Scripts

  "Elisabeth Moss Talks Jane Campion’s Miniseries TOP OF THE LAKE, Filming in New Zealand, Working with Holly Hunter, the Dark Nature of the Story, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 18, 2013.

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• I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal, oddly enough, because what happens is that you match the words to the movement, and once you know where you're moving, then the words that accompany that movement become not locked into your mind and your brain and your whole body.

  Angela Lansbury

  Memories, Real, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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