Rehearsal Quotes

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.

Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal. You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes - it's all about capturing the moment - in the moment, you know.

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

Life is not a rehearsal.

It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again.

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.