Quotes About Dress Rehearsal

#1. Really, we're just a microcosm of the human condition. Whether we're here a day, a month, a year, fifty years - our time on this earth is finite." This time he turned to Brendan. "Life isn't a dress rehearsal, as they say. This is our chance to discover things we might have only dreamed of before.

Claire Thompson

#2. You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

Dick York

#3. Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There's no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there's no dress rehearsal anymore.

Autumn Reeser

#4. Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life.

Peter Kreeft

#5. Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose.

Andrew Wommack

#6. For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.

David Jeremiah

#7. The true philosopher lives his life as a dress rehearsal for death.

Peter Kreeft

#8. I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal!

Kate Winslet

#9. Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.

Peter J. Daniels

#10. Many people live as if life were a dress rehearsal for some later date.

Richard Carlson

#11. The hardest thing about doing a series and having it stick is that you've never performed with each other, and the pilot is kind of a dress rehearsal, and you don't know the tone until two or three episodes in.

David Giuntoli

#12. When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: "Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!"

Tina Fey

#13. You couldn't sit in a room and wait for your muse to come and tickle you. Monday morning came, there was a dress rehearsal Thursday, you had to get that thing written. And it was grueling, but you learned to write.

Kevin Ashton

#14. You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Lucinda Bassett

#15. Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

Nora Ephron

#16. Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Rose Tremain

#17. This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.

Bill Murray

#18. Let's not hold anything back in 2015. We only have one life to live and this is not a dress rehearsal!! # allornothing

Christine Caine

#19. Life is not a dress rehearsal. Finding love is all about taking a risk, taking control of your social life, and knowing that you won't waste today because tomorrow is a gift.

Fran Greene

#20. I loved dancing the tango at the 1994 Nurses Ball Talent Show. I thought I'd be dancing with Brad Maule (Tony) but the writers revved up the passion by pairing me with Leigh McCloskey, my lover Damian. During dress rehearsal, for a goof, Leigh and Brad ran into each others arms instead!

Jacklyn Zeman

#21. This is life. It's not a dress rehearsal. If we don't do this now, we may as well start planning our own funerals.

Alastair Reynolds

#22. People treat life as though it's the dress rehearsal for some big show. It's not. This is it.

Jane Seymour

#23. Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth; I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one's there; that's kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out.

Richard Greenberg

#24. This is no dress rehearsal.

Phil McGraw

#25. Here's one night when I control the chaos. I participate with the doom I can't control. I'm dancing with the inevitable, and I survive ... My regular little dress rehearsal ... the day I finally meet Death, the two of us will be old, long-lost friends. Me and Death, separated at birth.

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. I wake up every morning thinking ... this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.

Anita Roddick

#27. What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time you're on stage, it's nothing but a dress rehearsal.

Maxine Powell

#28. A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters.

Kim Cattrall

#29. I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because ... we are just getting started.

Walt Disney Company

#30. Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#31. When death is imminent remember - this is not a dress rehearsal, the time is now, share your love!

Alison Bramhall

#32. Rest of the court, to watch the Golden Plays?" "I can't. Tomorrow is dress rehearsal for the Treaty Eve concert.

Rachel Hartman

#33. 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.

Kelly Wearstler

#34. Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

Gary Zukav

#35. If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

Marian Burros

#36. After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs.

Anne Fortier

#37. Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

Adyashanti

#38. Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

John Banville

#39. And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.

Stefan Molyneux

#40. Life isn't a dress rehearsal

Kerry Packer

#41. There is a sense in which the Christian's life on earth is a dress rehearsal for heaven. Not in terms of costumes and theatrics, but in terms of worship and devotion to the One we will worship for all eternity - the Lamb who sits on the throne of heaven.

David Jeremiah

#42. I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even more fondly than the ones that did really well.

John Mulaney

#43. My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

David Copperfield

#44. Your life is not a dress rehearsal - this is it! It's show time!

Denise Austin

#45. Running long offers a dress rehearsal. Running long teaches the stress of lifting feet 5,000 times per hour. Running long builds confidence.

Hal Higdon

#46. I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.

Bernie Mac

#47. We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you.

Aimee Bender

#48. Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

Fletcher Knebel

#49. But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down.

Robert Penn Warren

#50. It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don't spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy.

Richard Branson