Rehearsal Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Dad, Player, Practice

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• I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.

  Rashida Jones

  School, Law, Judging

  "Rashida Jones and Chris Pratt Talk Parks and Recreation". Interview with Brian Gallagher, www.movieweb.com. October 30, 2009.

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• I think there's a percentage [of the audience] that don't realize, that don't know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It's more of a ... it's not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.

  Tim Allen

  Hard Work, Thinking, Realizing

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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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• To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.

  Ice Cube

  Jobs, Laughing, Matter

  Source: collider.com

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• George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.

  Bernadette Peters

  One Day, Connections, Window

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: "Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!"

  Tina Fey

  Mirrors, Dresses, Hey

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.

  Christopher Walken

  Running, Cameras, Repeats

  Source: m.espn.go.com

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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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• Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Suicide, Girl Interrupted, Kitchen

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.37, Vintage

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