The regular season, it’s kind of like a rehearsal. That’s the way I look at it.
If you’re a comic, you don’t have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.
I met my husband at the rehearsal of a play. We were introduced, and he shook my hand without looking at me and said perfunctorily, ‘Pleased to meet you.’
I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.
I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I’m ready, whether it’s rehearsal or anything.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: ‘What’s that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let’s get started.’
For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
I don’t go into rehearsal for a production unless I’ve figured everything out.
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.
If you believe that how you do your work is as influential as the work you do, then a theatre rehearsal, which is a microcosm of the world, is the perfect place to model social change because if it doesn’t work this time, you can try again on the next production.
The thing I like about ‘Nashville,’ it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it’s performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.
In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren’t the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.
It’s a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That’s where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
My first memories of life were in rehearsal; that’s why I can sleep through anything.
Every project I got, whether I was playing a friend or doing television, I just wanted to prove myself: every single take, cue, and rehearsal is an audition. That’s my approach.
Next time I do a play, I want to go out of town. I don’t like the idea of opening in New York. I don’t have to do theatre, but if you’re going to do it, you should do it well. These days, everything has to be up and running in five minutes. As a result, the rehearsal time is missing.
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn’t anticipate. It’s really good to think we got it all nailed – of course you’ve never got it all nailed.
The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding.
I once played Jennifer Lopez’s werewolf body double in a sketch. I don’t think anyone was shocked when the sketch got cut after dress 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 survived on sandwiches, and I was on stage every night for six years of my life. I was working 16 hours a day between class, rehearsal, being on stage.
The two moments that I felt the most nervous in my entire life were when I first had reading rehearsal for ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’ and when I was at the Academy Awards ceremony.
When I was six, someone in my family gave me a yellow pencil holder that had my name printed on it. I still have it, and when I’m doing table work in rehearsal, I use it to carry my highlighters and other writing utensils. I love it.
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.
I’m used to working with a rehearsal process and your body. It’s a different thing to just be a voice. It’s liberating, on one hand, because you get to show up in sweatpants and with Doritos on your fingers, but on the other hand, it’s limiting because it’s just your voice.
It’s very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.
Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.
