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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.
You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.
In theater, you get to rehearse several weeks, you memorize everything, and by the time you open, you know what the play is. In film, it's almost the opposite. You do your work on your own and maybe have a couple of minutes to rehearse. When the camera rolls, you generally don't know what's going to happen.
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse. — © Ani DiFranco
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.
Sometimes people don't rehearse at all, but you might have had a chance to rehearse for a few days, or even more than that. Then in the moment when the camera's running is the only time it matters. So whatever you've discussed or thought about or discussed with the director, the other actors, hopefully there's a part of the experience that you've left open so that only in that moment the camera catches it. That's of course the hardest thing to do because everything is planned and you have thought about it in advance.
I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.
My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.
Miss Fontanne and I rehearse all the time. Even after we leave the theater, we rehearse. We sleep in the same bed. We have a script on our hands when we go to bed. You can't come and tell us to stop rehearsing after eight hours.
If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.
Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.
Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.
I don't do a lot of rehearsal. I don't like rehearsals. I rehearse the day or morning. I spend one hour and a half with all the actors, and we go over the scenes, and we change it and change the dialogue, and we do a lot of things to it, but prior to shooting, I don't really rehearse.
Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!
I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines. — © Patricia Clarkson
I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
I just wanted to do my own thing after The Murderdolls. The Murderdolls were so spread out all across the US that we couldn't just say, "Let's go rehearse." For us we had like four days to rehearse because everyone had to book flights, so we just never got as tight as most bands should be.
There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.
All the film stuff is business. Those are the songs I practise for, rehearse for, make money from.
We should all rehearse and practise the positives in our life, rather than doing what so many people do.
I've done films where we don't rehearse and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!
I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.
I rehearse my script with my co-actors and take their tips quite seriously.
Having been an actor, I always want to leave room for the actors to find their comfort zone, so I don't like to be too rigid in how I plan my shots. It's different if you have weeks to rehearse and you can rehearse on your sets or in your locations and you can plan that out with your actors, but in modern independent filmmaking, you don't really have that time. You have to have a certain level of improvisation.
I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.
My dad had a cover band. They would rehearse in my living room while my mom was pregnant.
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.
VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future.
My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.
Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.
If I had my way, we'd rehearse things to death.
When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.
In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance. — © William Levada
Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.
You just don't really rehearse kissing scenes, whether it's male or female.
I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.
When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.
I guess I'm used to TV where we don't really rehearse. You block it out, and then you just start shooting.
If I'm going to rehearse, I don't necessarily rehearse in costume.
I don't rehearse on either of my shows, 'Family Feud' or my talk show. I never rehearse with the guests. I don't want to have any preconceived thoughts, notions, because that kills my creativity as a host and as a stand up.
On stage, you rehearse for five weeks, and it goes out to 300 people. In 'EastEnders,' you get ten minutes to rehearse, and seven million people watch it!
You don't get time to rehearse in film and TV at all.
Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
Usually, on a show like 'Game of Thrones,' you don't have much time to rehearse; a lot of the sets are not available. — © Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Usually, on a show like 'Game of Thrones,' you don't have much time to rehearse; a lot of the sets are not available.
I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.
I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.
My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!
My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.
One thing I did inject was a different work ethic: Guys, no, we don't rehearse once or twice a month, we rehearse every day after work and on weekends, and that's how we're gonna get better. And everybody adopted that work ethic, and it did pay off.
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
I like to rehearse before blocking.
You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.
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