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VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future. -- Rhonda Byrne
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. -- Seneca the Younger
I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time. -- Robert Carlyle
You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles. -- Stan Getz
I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals. -- Matthew McConaughey
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. -- Sarah Caldwell
If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. -- Dylan Moran
There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death. -- Kat Dennings
I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am. -- Kristen Wiig
With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion. -- Diora Baird
With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much. -- Victoria de los Angeles
I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next. -- James Taylor
I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul. -- Christopher Eccleston
When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing. -- Alice Cooper
Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks. -- Clint Eastwood
I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting. -- Jim Jarmusch
I've started doing my Kathak, and I rehearse every day. Also, I'm eating right and keeping in shape. I'm a non-smoker and non-drinker and essentially a happy person. That's what counts the most. Your well-being is reflected in your personality. -- Madhuri Dixit
The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it. -- Joey Santiago
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right. -- John Ortberg
If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that. -- Dylan Moran
Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audience. An hour-long drama is like shooting a movie. You're shooting 13-14 hour days. The endurance itself is different. -- James Belushi
Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I'd play Nintendo 64 with them after we'd rehearse this stupid play that I wrote. -- John Francis Daley
I didn't see my son the entire time I did 'Dancing With the Stars.' The only time I saw Jeffrey was when he came to the show Monday and Tuesday nights to watch me dance. You literally rehearse six to eight hours every single day - 40 to 50 hours a week. -- Sherri Shepherd
Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them. -- Lesley Gore
If you're locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn't have the time to rehearse them correctly or if the perceived dynamic between the actors is different from what the writer imagined, and you're not allowed to stray from that, you're going to have a stilted scene. -- Mark Duplass
You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do. -- Bernie Siegel
In 'Uncharted,' we do the scenes the same way you would do a film or television show. The motion capture - the performance-capture process - is what makes such a difference for this franchise. So I don't approach it any differently. The other actors and I go in and rehearse scenes together, and then we go in the next day and perform. -- Nolan North
My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
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My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse. -- Shelby Lynne
Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world. -- Robert Smith
You just don't really rehearse kissing scenes, whether it's male or female. -- James Franco
You don't get time to rehearse in film and TV at all. -- Matthew Lewis
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse. -- Ani DiFranco
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy. -- Dante Alighieri
In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse -- Robert Herrick
Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse! -- Neil Peart
My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance. -- William Levada
No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown? -- Wayne Shorter
This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it. -- Michel Faber
When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music. -- Anthony Kiedis
I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines. -- Patricia Clarkson
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. -- Charles Churchill
To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness. -- Philip Sington
Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with. -- Nicolas Cage
Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse. -- Wayne Rogers
We should all rehearse and practise the positives in our life, rather than doing what so many people do. -- Richard Bandler
I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want. -- Mark Morris
When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there. -- Colin Greenwood
There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future. -- Seth Godin
Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less. -- Abbie Hoffman
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it. -- Laurence Gonzales
If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody. -- Satchel Paige
You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse. -- Hector Elizondo
We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2 -- William Shakespeare
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. -- William Fichtner
No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense. -- Lady Gaga
When you're doing a one-man play, you maybe rehearse for a month, and then you're just doing it an hour or two a night. -- Martin Henderson
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! -- Henry Ford
I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their characters. -- Arnaud Desplechin
The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You wait and wait. -- Marge Piercy
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign. -- William Cowper
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. -- Dwayne Hickman
I approach music and acting the same way, through spontaneous improvisation. I never really try to rehearse anything, do it over and over, except when we're inside a take. -- Matt Schulze
For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals. -- Marcello Malpighi
She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's the impression I got anyway. -- Richard Masur
Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection. -- Roger Delano Hinkins
In my job, whenever I delivered a presentation I would rehearse several times before the actual event. In sport, it is important to be equally prepared about my opponents. -- Keeth Smart
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat. -- Ted Hughes
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records. -- Edie Brickell
Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two. -- Richard Widmark
I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens. -- Donald Miller
That's why I don't rehearse a lot and why I shoot a lot immediately. I have ideas of where I'd like to take the character, but we both end up going together. -- Clint Eastwood
I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises. -- Charlotte Gainsbourg
It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place. -- Arto Lindsay
I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until we have to do it. I feel the same about theater. -- Carice van Houten
We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started. -- Charlie Daniels
I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who don't believe in it and some actors who prefer not to rehearse. -- Hugh Jackman
In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater. -- Christopher Walken
We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show. -- Dick Van Dyke
Being as restless as I am by nature, I couldn't simply just be on set, wait for my turn to rehearse for the week. And I kept reading, but it wasn't enough for me. -- Masiela Lusha
Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house. -- Susan Stroman

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