Top 163 Rehearsing Quotes & Sayings

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

Stop rehearsing life's failures. Use your beautiful imagination to visualize success.

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

TV, it's a director's medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you're standing so they can do the lighting, that's what I don't like.

When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.

I don't like rehearsing.

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

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

In theater, one of the biggest problems when you're rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other.

There's a difference between knowing what to do when you're rehearsing it, and being able to do it once you're adrenalized and emotional. That's when the injuries occur. Actors all want to try to pretend that they're experts at everything, but we're not.

It's always ideal if the production that you're taking out on tour is the one that you spent two weeks rehearsing with, and you just do the same show thirty nights in a row.

I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.

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

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.

Traveling, talking to people, and rehearsing, I'm always finding new ideas. If I stay in one place, maybe I won't have so many ideas.

There's nothing like rehearsing a waltz to a Stormzy track. It's hard to compare it to anything!

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

Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?

My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.

My technique is different, and I am more spontaneous. I don't like rehearsing.

Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or on tour.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

I've never liked rehearsing too much.

I'm not one who likes rehearsing too much.

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

I love the rehearsal, as long as it's not over-rehearsed. I love it when the actors can rehearse until we feel really comfortable, and then the crew come in and shoot it. I'm not especially a big fan of rehearsing with the crew and the crew rehearsing and, "Let's rehearse this tracking dolly shot 25 times until it's just right." Television has to be shot a certain way to have a certain look. And sometimes the tried-and-true method is the best.

I definitely feel, as a theatre actor, that when you're rehearsing in your street clothes in a rehearsal room, it can be a little hard to find the character.

I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die...

I have this habit of not rehearsing a lot; I don't go on practicing my dialogues, pauses, and actions.

Because I used to go and watch him rehearsing for pantomime, and I have adopted some of those priciples, like try to be on time, learn your script, how he approach it, etc.

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.

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

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

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

The one thing I made a point of doing, when we were sat with the producers rehearsing, is I'd never see the answers.

You don't get to rehearse much on TV. You are kind of rehearsing on film. Depending on the way you work, that's either a good thing or a bad thing.

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.

At least Donald Trump is not politically correct; he's not so concerned about rehearsing and focus grouping every statement he makes and that's one of the reasons I supported him.

For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real.

When I was a kid, I was into hardcore music. The scene in New York was tiny. Every person hanging out was in a band and played at the A7 Club. There was not much rehearsing or anything. Just doing.

I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

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

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.

Rehearsing is more about blocking in the case of movies, I think, and blocking, of course, is very important to the beauty of a scene.

I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing.

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

The important thing with memorising a part is not to force it. Sometimes when you're rehearsing, you'll think it's not going in, but it is. On stage, you have to trust that the lines are there, because they are. The real challenge is to relax.

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We [The Replacements] stopped rehearsing. We stopped getting together and rehearsing. We'd perform, and that would take it all out of us. Then we'd be done touring and we'd be sick of each other. We'd never call each other up and hang out.

I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character.

You have moments where you do appearances and people recognize you and you get fan letters, but that's after you've put in long days rehearsing, filming and for us kids - going to school on the set.

I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.

I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.