Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity.
In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind of the same thing. You're figuring it out and hopefully the camera is pointed at you when you're doing it.
There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.
Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose.
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.
[On writer George Moore:]. . . I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.
When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.
I'm at the top, top, top of my game now. I'm so happy to be on that stage, I'm in control of it, and I love every minute of it. I walk onstage in rehearsal and I start to smile. And so I just don't care what anyone else is doing. Do what you want, say what you want. Nobody else can do what I do onstage. Nobody.
Nobody could disappear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.
If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.
I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.
Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini that they rose as one man and applauded him. When the spontaneous cheering has subsided, Toscanini turned to his men, tears glistening in his eyes. "Please. . . please! Don't do this! You see, gentlemen, it isn't me you should applaud. It's Beethoven!"
Well, television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.
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.
I'm a big believer in rehearsal and a big believer in the actors being able to find the material themselves and identify with the beats themselves without us having to stick to the actual language of the script, just for them to understand what each scene is about.
Trumpets! Can you bring your. . . uh. . . extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?
I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.
I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.