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Rehearsals make a huge difference. -- John Leguizamo
Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world. -- Martin Freeman
Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence. -- Jerry Cantrell
Rehearsals and practice times by myself are like these little islands of 'Okay' in a vast sea of 'Holy Crap! -- Jordan Sonnenblick
Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen. -- Gene Tierney
Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun. -- Sarah Sutton
Rehearsels, actually." "Rehearsals?" "For the-" Oh,no. "-musicale." The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who could maintain a romantic thought when faced with the memory-or the threat-of a Smythe-Smith musicale. -- Julia Quinn
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one. -- George S. Kaufman
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals. -- Larry Hagman
I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance. -- Paul Taylor
During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was. -- Jeanne Moreau
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.' -- Trent Reznor
Sometimes, rehearsals are not worth it if you do not have an accurate cast, and that is one of the most difficult parts about a film. -- Javier Camara
It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot. -- Peter Morgan
It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it. -- Peter Mayhew
Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action. -- Damon Hill
Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar. -- Paul Simon
Five, Six, Seven, Nate!' opens on my 13-year-old protagonist packing up a duffel bag and bidding his Midwestern town goodbye, heading off to start rehearsals for his New York City debut in 'E.T.: The Musical.' -- Tim Federle
I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.' -- Zac Efron
I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you... whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you. -- Randeep Hooda
I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school. -- Lily Allen
You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd and kick it with 'em, stage dive, mosh. I make 'em laugh. I go out there and turn up, have fun. There's no set list; I don't have rehearsals. -- Schoolboy Q
I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I'm present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else's hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles. -- Akshay Kumar
Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for 'Spamalot' and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
Rehearsals are set up so that you find out all the nuances about your character. You never want to beat yourself up. It's about finding the right direction, and most of the time, the right direction is not what you think is the right direction. That's why the director's there: to guide you there. -- Djimon Hounsou
I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple. -- Michael Haneke
You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way. -- Dave Grohl
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals. -- Alan Rickman
As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London. -- Zach Braff
The NAACP should have riot rehearsals. -- Rush Limbaugh
My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future. -- David Copperfield
Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death. -- Anais Nin
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage. -- Maria Callas
Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing. -- Adam Rapp
No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best. -- Jim Jarmusch
I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals. -- Ben Whishaw
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin. -- Madeleine Stowe
Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals. -- John Leguizamo
I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress. -- Sonia Braga
I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character. -- John Malkovich
I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals. -- Matthew McConaughey
All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals. -- Craig Ferguson
I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers. -- Rosamund Pike
I'm quite the nagger too. I nag at the others when their chatting makes our rehearsals finish later than scheduled. -- Seohyun
There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals. -- Robert Kazinsky
The more and more that you dance, the easier it gets, and the more you can push yourself and do more rehearsals. -- Jonathan Bennett
I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance -- Paul Taylor
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students. -- Zubin Mehta
I'm heavily involved in the creative with choreographer Christopher Scott. I go to rehearsals with 'Glee' and then practice with LXD till about midnight. -- Harry Shum, Jr.
Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals. -- Twyla Tharp
The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff. -- Stephen Sondheim
I actually do a lot of Pilates and try to hike every day that I'm home. Also, I dance SO much in my shows and at rehearsals! -- Tinashe
In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set. -- Ben Whishaw
I never seem to know what's going on... Right from the very start, my life has been strange. I think I know what happened... I must have missed all the rehearsals. -- Charles M. Schulz
The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals -- Carol Shields
You can only know how confident you are when you kick-start. True confidence is not found in excessive rehearsals; it comes from experience. Plan, prepare, but will willing to make it happen! -- Israelmore Ayivor
No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal. -- James Corden
I learned more in the rehearsals for 'The Letter' than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot. -- Terry Teachout
I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great. -- Ike Turner
Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience. -- Warren G. Bennis
Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out. -- Rider Strong
If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted. -- Neale Donald Walsch
There is always a sacred hour in the theatre - after rehearsals and before performances, in the afternoon, between three and five o'clock. Normally the theatre is empty then, and this is a wonderful hour. -- Henning Mankell

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