Rehearsal Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  People, Hobbies, Interviews

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• Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

  Larry Hagman

  Hard Work, Comedy, Timing

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• I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple.

  Michael Haneke

  Coffee, Simple, Long

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• Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, "Ah that's great."

  Denis Leary

  Character, Ideas, Actors

  "Q&A with 'Rescue Me' writer-actor Denis Leary". Interview with Stuart Levine, variety.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Rehearsals make a huge difference.

  John Leguizamo

  Differences, Huge

  Twitter post from Jul 7, 2016

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• I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

  John Malkovich

  Taken, Character, Mean

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• I've done films where we don't rehearse and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Done, Film

  "Matthew McConaughey Interview THE LINCOLN LAWYER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 15, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

  Jaco Pastorius

  Tubing, Next, Jazz

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• I don't like rehearsal.

  Charlize Theron

  Source: collider.com

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• The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Stuff, Hearing, Assuming

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• The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult, no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, 'I understand that. What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it.'

  Thomas Powers

  Sorry, Play, Trying

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• I'm quite the nagger too. I nag at the others when their chatting makes our rehearsals finish later than scheduled.

  Seohyun

  Chatting

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• Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.

  Brett Ratner

  "'Tower Heist' Director Brett Ratner Issues Apology for Gay Slur" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 7, 2011.

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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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• Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to put on a show. The rest of your life is rehearsals, prepping in the wings to be fabulous online.

  Lauren Beukes

  Media, Wings, Trying

  "Broken Monsters". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2014.

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• I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

  Trevor Nunn

  Ideas, Challenges, Development

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• Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Names, Heaven

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.21, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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