Rehearsal Quotes - Page 9

• My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

  Eddie Izzard

  People, Gigs, Bigs

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• There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Interesting, Exciting, Walks

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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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• I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

  Carmen Electra

  Dip, Groups, Use

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• All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

  Craig Ferguson

  Pain, Drama, School

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• People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

  William Hurt

  People, Luck, Cameras

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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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• Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

  Michael J. Fox

  People, Dying, Moments

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

  Zac Efron

  Sports, Moving, Dancing

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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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• I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

  Jennifer Garner

  Dancer, Ballet, Musical

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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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• In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

  Carol Burnett

  Jobs, Angel, Play

  "Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character". PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2008.

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• At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

  George S. Kaufman

  Dramatic, Absent

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• I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.

  Ewan McGregor

  Thinking, Important, Done

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. March 07, 2012.

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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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• 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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• If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.

  Dylan Moran

  Long, Speech, Rooms

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• During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Fighting, Inner Demons, Mysterious

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• Rehearsals make a huge difference.

  John Leguizamo

  Differences, Huge

  Twitter post from Jul 7, 2016

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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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• Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we'd have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants.

  Denis Leary

  Dog, Two, Stuff

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's catchphrases recorded on a loop. You'd wear this thing around during rehearsals and for a week listen to the voice you had to impersonate over and over again. It drove all of us crazy.

  Artie Lange

  Crazy, Character, Voice

  Artie Lange, Anthony Bozza (2008). “Too Fat to Fish”, p.147, Spiegel & Grau

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• I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I'm present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else's hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles.

  Akshay Kumar

  Men, Race, Hands

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• I played a security guard, and I think it was in the State Department. This was my first acting role, really, and I remember rehearsing it on the couch with my girlfriend at the time. I had a real problem with saying the word "incendiary." Most of my rehearsal was spent on pronouncing the word "incendiary."

  Kevin Nealon

  Girlfriend, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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