Rehearsal Quotes - Page 8

• There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

  Keeley Hawes

  Theatre, Lines, Knows

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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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• James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

  Leslie Caron

  Ivory, Firsts, Actors

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• I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal!

  Kate Winslet

  Believe, Dresses, Holding Back

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• No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

  Mark Gibbs

  Technology, Numbers, People

  "The myth of the digital lifestyle" by Mark Gibbs, www.networkworld.com. January 9, 2006.

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• The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

  Alfred Jarry

  Artist, Unique, Theatre

  Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”

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• Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

  Jimmy Page

  Years, Wonderful, Hours

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

  Jaco Pastorius

  Tubing, Next, Jazz

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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 roadwork is just rehearsal for that DVD you're going to film a year later.

  Jeff Dunham

  Dvds, Years, Film

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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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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• In theater, there's a lot of discipline involved in doing eight shows a week for a year and a half. It's nice to be able to bring some of that bag of tools with you over to the film world, where you don't have the rehearsal, you don't have an audience. You don't have a month of rehearsal to examine these words, and you meet the guy who's going to play your brother the morning that you shoot the scene. So you need a bag of tools.

  William Sadler

  Morning, Brother, Nice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Play, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.

  Andrew Lau

  Actors, Goes On, Want

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• I don't like rehearsal.

  Charlize Theron

  Source: collider.com

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