A Quote by Billy Crystal

Rehearsals are for gags.

Billy Crystal

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Gags Rehearsals

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Billy Crystal
American - Comedian
Born: March 14, 1947

Sometimes films have no rehearsals - you don't have real rehearsals on the set because the day is so dominated by the schedule.

Kenneth Lonergan

I'm never happier when writing than when I see gags taking shape - ideally, gags at my own expense. What I like is the shuttling back and forth, serious into comedy and vice-versa, ideally, both in the same sentence, or even simultaneously. The best jokes are always ideas in miniature.

Geoff Dyer

Going to rehearsals was too depressing, and missing rehearsals was also depressing, so it was like a vicious circle.

Charlotte Caffey

I have worked with Salman a lot of times and have choreographed him earlier also. He doesn't do rehearsals; he never comes for that. He is the only actor who has never opened the door for rehearsals.

Remo D'Souza

It's very difficult to switch back and forth between running rehearsals and then stepping in to dance in rehearsals as a dancer. Just to switch hats in an instant can be a little bit jarring, mostly physically, on the body.

Justin Peck

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Morris Chestnut

Gags die, humor doesn't.

Jack Benny

He wasn't Bugs without the gags we gave him.

Tex Avery

I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

Damian Lewis

The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the bulletin board saying: 'The next Oswald will take place at the North Pole. Anybody having any gags, please turn them in before such a date.' If you turned in gags regularly, the way Tex Avery, Cal Howard, Jack Carr and two or three others of us did, you'd be called into the gag meeting. The group would go into Walt's office and talk about whatever the subject of the cartoon was. Walt would put it into some kind of form and that was the story--no scripts, no storyboards.