Rehearsing Quotes

• It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Scary, Scar, Felt

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• I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren't a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future.

  David Copperfield

  Encouraging, Dream, Motivation

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• The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Father, Trying Something New, Alive

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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• It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Interesting, Joy, Collaboration

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• I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Actors, Directors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2004.

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• The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

  Ang Lee

  Way, Scene

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• It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

  William Saroyan

  Life, Men

  William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.55, A&C Black

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• Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

  Emmitt Smith

  Dream, Real, Mean

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• When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'

  Kellan Lutz

  Moon, Laughing, Kind

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• Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.

  David Lynch

  Talking, Actors, Moments

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• Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

  Peter Shaffer

  Play, Flesh, Process

  Peter Shaffer (2011). “Equus”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Play, Progress, Trying

  "The Quality of Mercy".

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• I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

  Donna Mills

  Character, Cutting, Things In Life

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• Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Memories, Imagining Yourself, Brain

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• We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness.

  Alice McDermott

  Laughter, Silly, Names

  Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.163, A&C Black

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• I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Mother, Thinking, Long

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.

  Dana Carvey

  Night, Years, Two

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• When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.

  Marion Cotillard

  Fun, People, House

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• I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Character, Thinking, Film

  "Kirsten Dunst Relies on Intuition and Years of Experience to Serve the Role". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. November 2, 2011.

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• We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.

  Zac Efron

  School, Eight, Musical

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• I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

  Brendan Fehr

  Fans, Bigs

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• I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.

  Jennifer Garner

  Team, Feelings, Together

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• For a moment I can't help thinking how decent he is - that there's some hope for him beyond the obnoxious image he displays. Maybe deep down he is a sensitive guy, who sees us as real people with real issues. I want to say something nice. Some kind of thanks. I stand there, rehearsing it in my mind. "Oh my God," he says, "did you see that girl's tits?" Maybe not today.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Real, Nice

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Worship is not music. We can certainly worship Him without musicians and without a song. And by the way, God does not actually seek worship. The Word tells us that He seeks worshippers. He's not looking for those who make the most beautiful music. He's looking for those who worship in spirit ... and in truth. Music is only one of the ways that he has ordained for us to express our worship. Yet too many worship leaders today spend more time honing their craft and planning / rehearsing their worship sets, than they spend on their face, alone in worship.

  Steven Rice

  Beautiful, Song, Leader

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• It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing their skills, and at least a day attempting to reach the summit. And then, having achieved their goal, they spend just a few moments enjoying the experience, along with one or two equally certifiable companions who have little in common other than wanting to do it all again, but a little higher.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Men, Skills, Two

  Jeffrey Archer (2009). “Paths of Glory”, p.72, Pan Macmillan

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