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
There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.
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.
Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
Phil Harris and Pat Boone were once paired as guests on an episode of Andy Williams' TV show. During a rehearsal break, Harris suggested the three of them go out for a drink. When Boone declined, explaining he did not drink, Harris asked Williams, "Andy, can you imagine getting up in the morning knowing that's the best you're going to feel all day?"
The more and more that you dance, the easier it gets, and the more you can push yourself and do more rehearsals.
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.
The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.
I don't like rehearsal.
In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.
When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.
It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.
The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.
Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.
You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
I think there's a percentage [of the audience] that don't realize, that don't know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It's more of a. . . it's not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.
Love is the rehearsal of Paradise.
Your life is not a dress rehearsal - this is it! It's show time!
For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.