Rehearsing A Play Quotes

#1. I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

Bill Pullman

#2. I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

Sam Neill

#3. Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Peter Shaffer

#4. Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Tom Baker

#5. The first parts of Europe 'to emerge from barbarism,' Briffault says, were those most directly under the influence of 'Moorish' culture: the Spanish Marches of Catalonia, Provence, and Sicily.

S.E. Al-Djazairi

#6. When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to live in the skin of the character for much longer than when you first start doing a character on TV.

Carrie Preston

#7. I don't want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.

Sandra Bullock

#8. When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.

Saoirse Ronan

#9. The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

Adam Driver

#10. My guess is that before Obama departs, he will adopt some of the more aggressive military options he has been resisting, such as 'safe zones' inside Syria and more aggressive deployment of U.S. special forces.

David Ignatius

#11. She don't speak," said the big man in the yellow cloak. "You bloody bastards cut her throat too deep for that. But she remembers." He turned to the dead woman and said, "What do you say, m'lady? Was he part of it?" Lady Catelyn's eyes never left him. She nodded.

George R R Martin

#12. I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.

Geena Davis

#13. When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

Mercedes McCambridge

#14. Sometimes, people won't like what you do. Do it anyway. It's better to be happy and hated than miserable.

Kit Rocha

#15. A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#16. To see Paul positively does not mean endorsing everything he ever wrote.

Marcus J. Borg

#17. There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.

Walter Kaufmann

#18. You should find what sets you on fire, what you are passionate about, and then you should do that. No matter the risk.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#19. I love colors ... as much as I love concepts.

Genco Gulan

#20. I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

Selena Gomez

#21. When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.

Charlie Haden

#22. The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

Larry Elder

#23. It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.

Lauren Oliver

#24. I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

Louis Bonaparte

#25. I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.

Saoirse Ronan