Best Rehearsing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.”

“I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.”

Children Two Moments Next Birth Scene Sitting Tables Following Next Day Bizarre Friday Sitting Around Leonardo Rehearsing Morocco Sitting Around A Table

Author:Mark Strong

“I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and I found that's the way that works for me. The more energy you have on set, the better you'll be; it's all about being alive in that moment and listening.”

Way Moments Jobs Found Energy Alive Listening Training Boat That Moment Rehearsing

Author:Rory McCann

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

Feelings Together Rooms Team Dressings Inspirational Team Dressing Rooms Rehearsing

Author:Jennifer Garner

“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.”

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Author:Janeane Garofalo

“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.”

Done Together Records Sick Hanging Out Fourth Fifth Touring Replacements Rehearsing

Author:Paul Westerberg

“Acting is rare. You can be rehearsing Ibsen with Sir Richard Eyre and suddenly he has to take a call on his mobile telling him his friend Arthur Miller has died. Or you can come back from a job on the Isle of Man to be told by your agent you're going straight out to South Africa on another shoot. There's not even any time to wash your pants.”

Men Jobs Acting Died South Agents Pants South Africa Mobile Arthur Isle Rehearsing Ibsen

Author:Jamie Sives

“Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!”

Said Wanted Building Built Garden Afternoon Fountain Rehearsing

Author:Maurice Gibb

“Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!”

“Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you're more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.”

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

Years Pain Becoming And Love Lips Complaining Ache Seals Rehearsing Aches And Pains

Book:Life is a Banquet

Source: Life is a Banquet

“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.”

Ifs Shows Rooms Land Worst Theater Down And Musical Surroundings Rehearsal Rehearsing Imagining The Worst

Author:Hildegard Knef

“I always feel like I'm rehearsing. I'm a workaholic. But youve got to let go and trust and enjoy! I'm a real perfectionist. Its probably my biggest disadvantage. But as long as I can go out there, trust in the work and just have fun, thats what matters.”

Feels Long I Can Real Matter Fun Enjoy Letting Go Having Fun What Matters Disadvantages Perfectionist Workaholic Rehearsing Just Have Fun

Author:Nicole Scherzinger

“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.”

Trying Father Process Alive Best Things Something New Rehearsing Trying Something Trying Something New Figuring Things

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.”

Ifs Play Whole Morning Easier Evening Personal Life Rehearsing

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“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.”

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Author:Charlie Haden

“So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.”

Source: The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia

“An actress reading a part for the first time tries many ways to say the same line before she settles into the one she believes suits the character and situation best. There's an aspect of the rehearsing actress about the girl on the verge of her teens. Playfully, she is starting to try out ways to be a grown-up person.”

Way Trying Firsts Believe Persons Character Girl Reading Lines Situation First Time Aspect Starting Actresses Suits Settling Teens Verge Rehearsing

Book:Daughters: from infancy to independence

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.”

Form Guy Too Much Students Method Mess Classic Ritual Combat Artificial Fluid Stance Paralysis Rehearsing Constrain Horsing Around

Author:Bruce Lee

“On indies it's hard to do, but in rehearsals, you make mistakes in rehearsal. It's really hard rehearsing a play or what rehearsal you get on any movie. That's where you get to make your mistakes, and you make big ones. So when you shoot [the movie] or you finally get the play in shape and do it, the mistakes are out of the way. If you're not afraid to make mistakes, then there is no writer's block or actor's block.”

Ifs Way Hard Play Bigs Actors Mistake Shapes Block Making Mistakes Not Afraid Rehearsal Writer's Block Rehearsing

Author:Jeff Daniels

“I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.”

Writing Years Long Stuff Touring Rehearsing

Author:Slash

“Taking on an iconic character is difficult, sure, people associate different actors with a character that you're playing, but there's something in rehearsing and developing a new character.”

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Author:Kathryn Hahn

“I played a security guard, and I think it was in the State Department. This was my first acting role, really, and I remember rehearsing it on the couch with my girlfriend at the time. I had a real problem with saying the word "incendiary." Most of my rehearsal was spent on pronouncing the word "incendiary."”

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Author:Kevin Nealon

“The band that I was I auditioning for, they were just all like, dreads and stuff, so I did look kind of out of place. But I had learned the material and it sounded cool as f**k when we were rehearsing.”

Looks Kind Stuff Materials Band Dread Rehearsing

Author:Tony Palermo

“With chamber music you can get people who work on the music for months, rehearsing it every day for a couple of hours, and if they get it in a different way than you do, which is entirely possible, it's not as a result of anything other than their good musicianship.”

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Author:Nico Muhly

“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.”

People Long Moments Kids School Fans Letters Appearance Long Day Rehearsing

Author:Ken Osmond

“But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.”

Ifs Way Doe Enough Happens Fighting Three Found Games Easier Scene Shots Things Happen Soccer Target Quarters Clicks Register Rehearsing Soccer Game

Author:Luke Pasqualino

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

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Author:Clive Owen

“Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.”

Thinking Needs Trying Stills Models Instinct Curiosity Openness Educate Rehearsing

Author:John Updike

“The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.”

Ifs Song Changed Band January Rehearsing

Author:James Iha

“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.”

Firsts Bigs Remember Strong Parent Memories Bears Dancing Musical Teddy Quartets Rehearsing Teddy Bear Villa

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“When my band MU landed on Maui in 1973 we were greeted by a wonderful group of peace loving brothers & sisters who we immediately formed a bond with. We had two instant roadies, Spider & Richard, who helped with every move of our musical equipment. We settled into our house on the edge of the rainforest that eventually became a portable studio. We started rehearsing and booked the Lahaina Civic Auditorium for a full moon concert starring MU and a local band The Space Patrol.”

“I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.”

Doe Character Mistake Focus Valuable Rehearsal Rehearsing

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Play Taken Too Much Elements Surprise Rehearsing Element Of Surprise

Author:Geena Davis

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

Hard Play Presses Brooklyn Rehearsing

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.”

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Author:Saoirse Ronan

“But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.”

Years Stills Lasts Song Next Albums Finished Planning Next Year New Songs Rehearsing

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“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.”

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Author:Misty Copeland

“I'm not one who likes rehearsing too much.”

Too Much Likes Rehearsing

Author:Sophie Nelisse

“We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.”

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Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom. Gordon Willis was the director of photography, and at the end of the day, Gordon turned to Woody Allen and said, "We cannot accomplish all of this in this space. It's impossible." And we'd been rehearsing and trying to shoot this thing all day. So Woody said, "Okay, let's do something else." He looked at me and said, "Come back tomorrow, I'll put you in something else." And he did.”

“[Billy Bob Conroy role] that was a favor. Actually, the lady who cast Night Court asked me to do it, because it was a Friday, and the person who'd been rehearsing it all week got sick and couldn't come to the taping. And she figured I could put it together pretty quickly - it was not all that big a challenge, frankly - and I said, "Of course." I owed her, after all. Gilda Stratton was her name. She was a really, really nice person. So I did it.”

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Author:Brent Spiner

“I had the kid [on "Fences" ] who understudied me so I could stand back and think about shots so he had to learn the blocking and everything. I'd come in early sometimes, and they 'd be in there rehearsing and working on their stuff. I didn't want them to feel like, "Oh these are people who can't be touched." We're all working actors; we're all trying to get better.”

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Author:Denzel Washington

“Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and you do the lights and the sets and you make the machine of the production work. It takes usually about ten days in the theater, two or three weeks if it's a really big musical. I mean, it's hell on earth. You just sit around forever while they adjust the lights. And every playwright with half a brain runs for the hills when tech starts because it's so boring, and you don't want to talk to the director because the director is running this giant machine.”

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

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Author:Ang Lee

“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.'”

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Author:Kellan Lutz

“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.”

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Author:David Lynch

“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.”

Form Memories Brain Tasks Connections Instruments Muscles Rehearsing Muscle Memory Imagining Yourself

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

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

Trying Play Might Progress Madness Concentration Work In Progress Rehearsing

Author:Mercedes McCambridge

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