Quotes About Theatre Rehearsal

#1. I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

Judd Nelson

#2. Plenty of foods inside my stomach.Soul is empty.

Munia Khan

#3. It is hard to get good actors who also do television, ads and films. Theatre requires six weeks of rehearsal for a play.

Lillete Dubey

#4. I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

Dan Savage

#5. There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.

John Kander

#6. Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
[Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam
Posse volunt.]

Juvenal

#7. Theatre is so much fun because you do theatre and you have a month of working it out on your own, and then a month of rehearsal, so by the time you get to stage I know where I'm failing and I know where I'm succeeding and your boundaries are pretty concrete.

Chris Pine

#8. Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.

Maury Yeston

#9. Every day in America is a day with a shooting.

Bill Maher

#10. Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together ... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Keira Knightley

#11. She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing "single" about a single mom.

Mandy Hale

#12. There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

Keeley Hawes

#13. Don't you have a girlfriend or family you'd rather be with? (Geary)
Only Solin, and honestly, he's not this soft. Even if he was, it'd be gross. (Arik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

Bruce Beresford

#15. The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

Peter Brook

#16. That's opera! I just love it. It just thrills me! And it's very different than theatre, and sometimes it can be frustrating because when you come in the first day of rehearsals obviously you're an opera fan, right?

Jason Graae

#17. Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

Owen Feltham

#18. American Ballet Theatre's rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina's toes.

Sascha Radetsky