No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.
Nobody realizes that I work 18 hours-a-day for a solid month to make that TV hour look like it's never been rehearsed!
You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you do somehow in front of a camera.
By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.
The Red Wedding was an amazing experience I'll never forget. We rehearsed it like a play over one whole day, and then shot it over five days.
I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.
The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.
There's nothing worse than shooting a scene you haven't rehearsed.
I rehearsed it a lot underwater with a mouthpiece for Casino Royale and not freaking out, because you can't see a thing. It's like being in a really bad nightmare. I've never seen somebody drown, but I really swallowed water. It was like choreography. It was very emotional. I was crying underwater at one point.
A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
Being over-rehearsed is very bad. It is stilted. The public see that.
I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me.
You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.
Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .