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I don't have the answer until we look at it in a rehearsal room. But we're not going to do anything that will hurt us." ()

Casting, to me, is always the same. It's a very important part of a director's job. I pick people that I sense I'd like to be in a room with and will enjoy the rehearsal process with because that's the best part.

Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start again. We were initially supposed to be more combative.

I have never been so impressed with anyone in rehearsal in my life as I was with her,

I don't think we've had a rehearsal where someone hasn't cried.

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.

There is a not a dress rehearsal where she will know what the questions are,

This was a great dress rehearsal for the Io encounters. We've been wondering how the spacecraft might hold up when it gets close to Io. This latest brush with radiation makes us think that the odds of survival may be fairly good.

It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.

I think that if I'm at home sitting doing the rewrite, I'm going to write something different than if I'm there in the rehearsal room doing it. It's kind of hard to explain, but if you're tossed into the fire at any particular moment, then you are going to write something different than you will in another particular moment. And that is from day to day.

I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.'

Penn Singers is well established, so we're lucky. We have a regular rehearsal space. But I hear stories from other groups. There's a lot of competition.

I think I love teaching for the reason I love being in a rehearsal room,

I think he loves it. It is a relief to go in the rehearsal hall and get away from all of it.

We know that there was significant rehearsal and planning, ... They even had markers, they drew marbles of the enemy, they drew carved statues and they made battle plans like they do at West Point today.

Today was kind of a dress rehearsal for a dress rehearsal. We're a little ahead of schedule, as you always are this time of year.

You know, a lot of people dont know it, but we get here at four in the morning and do the entire show in rehearsal just to get it right, right?

While we have tested certain parts of the plan, the dress rehearsal is our first opportunity to see how well all of the pieces fit together.

We got together and that first rehearsal we went through 80 percent of our songs. It was great, and we knew he'd work out for us.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

Sometimes it depends on the actor or the actress. Sometimes they demand a lot of rehearsals. Sometimes they don't. Making movies is not like making a play, so I guess you can leave some of the work for improvisation when they do the work.

I would say my favorite was just the beginning of the movie like doing all the rehearsal stuff. It's been amazing to see the rest of it happen but it happens so piecemeal. And Edgar sort of has the whole movie edited in his head already, so we're just sort of matching to what he has.

The excitement of being in a rehearsal room is good for me.

Well, some pieces of course require much more rehearsal because they are unknown, and they involve very specific, complicated problems.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.

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.

The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.

The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.

I don't like to rehearse. And I couldn't understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

We sat around that table in the jury room, and it really gave us a lot of rehearsal time. A lot of stuff that we shot was really rehearsal stuff.

We had a better dress rehearsal today, less mistakes (than Wednesday) ... I feel like we're prepared as good as we can be at this point.

The only time I've ever danced every day was during 'Dancing with the Stars' and in the two-week rehearsal for 'Dirty Dancing,' and that was only to do a particular dance.

We've got this place in Newcastle and we thought we'd invite bands to come up and why not do some collaboration? Normally we pick them up from the station, whisk them to our rehearsal space, and just start recording. It's a 12-hour process, and after 12 hours the track should be done, completed and mixed.

When you arrive at the set, you go from one rehearsal to the next and you struggle to get your lines out correctly and hit your marks.

The rehearsal process is the most important thing to me, so working with colleagues who are effusive, thoughtful, young and vivacious is really inspiring as a musician.

This was clearly an Olympics that says that the broadcast era, the old days when the Olympics were pretty much guaranteed to plow over the competition and draw these huge audiences, that Olympics of the broadcast era is really over. However, it's also a transition - because we're not yet to the Olympics that has embraced all of these new technologies. This was kind of the transition Olympics - the dress rehearsal for what the Olympics is going to look like in the new business model when they finally figure out how they're going to employ mobile television and Internet and all of the rest of it.

You have to attend rehearsal and be able to stand for long stretches of time. And you have to run onto Ford Field with 2,000 other folks.

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.

We will use as many players as possible. It is fun to play this game, especially with so many new guys. We need a dress rehearsal to make sure everyone knows the game-day routine.

We want another year before we record an entire CD. Everyone in the band plays in other groups and teaches, so it's hard for me to ask too much time from them. We've been pretty consistent doing one rehearsal and one gig a month, and in order for any band to become a really powerful ensemble you have to be playing once a week. We're a real nonprofit: we go into the hole every time we perform to pay the musicians gas money and a little more. Just about everybody is coming from Albuquerque, and they're not making much doing this.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.

'Days of Our Lives' was an insane schedule. You're doing a whole one-hour show in a day. You do a very cursory run-through with the director telling you where you're going to be standing, then you do a quick rehearsal on camera and you shoot it.

The building will provide a state of the art performance hall and a rehearsal space for musical performance and instruction for large orchestral ensembles and choral groups.

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.

This had that championship feel. This was a bit of a dress rehearsal for what we're going to see the rest of the year.

They're more than customers; they are like friends and family. We've even had some second generations come in to have their rehearsal dinners here, the same place their parents had theirs.

It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon.

It's a tough language. I've been doing Shakespeare for 40 years and I still struggle with it. We simplify the language and we cut out a lot of the hard stuff -- we cut the play from 2 1/2 hours to 40 minutes. But we try to get just the meat of the play. Today is not any finished performance. Today is a work in progress. It's still rehearsal time.

It was really nice working with her, ... She's a very sweet little girl. We had a lot of rehearsal time together. When we were just getting to know each other she would tell me stories about her dog and her grandma before we got on with doing scenes together. She worked really hard but seemed to enjoy it. I hope we didn't torture her too much.

It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it.

For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting.

It's an opportunity to give back. They're going to do it anyway, so why not do a dress rehearsal with a live audience and generate some money too. It's two separate entities, but it's the arts. It's nice that one can help the other.

It's hard to get your footing, because it's continually changing during the rehearsal process. It's like directing a workshop show, which also performs. It's hard to have a vision of how to mount the production, since it's always shifting.

It's a very funny play so it's very hard to get through a whole rehearsal without cracking up.

I've gotten pretty good with a tray between acting jobs. In fact, when I got the TV show 'Gravity' I was still doing my catering work. I told my director I had to miss rehearsal because I had to work a party. He was like, 'You're on TV. You need to get over that.'

I want this lit for the rehearsal tomorrow. Either outside, inside, or whatever.

The two of us have always had a policy we'd never play. But the (HSBC) Arena got involved and wanted to see John's team come in. We needed to play there next season (as a rehearsal game for the 2007 NCAA Tournament regional). We were both desperate for games and we decided to do it.

There was an actual script, but when you would get in the room and start shooting, there was no rehearsal in the room or wherever you were.

That's a great benefit. After we chose the cast, we educated them into the play. We taught them. One of the blessings of being at the National Theatre is that you have a very long rehearsal time.

Their concerts are the most fun thing to do in South Bend. The real Guns N' Roses haven't sounded this good since 1989. I think that if Slash heard some of their guitar solos on Friday, he would immediately run back to his rehearsal studio to practice.

I learned that the best way to work is to allow the scene to live on its own before making major adjustments, whether in rehearsal or on film.

I'm completely stunned that the DVD came out as great as it did. There was some greater power watching over us. It was a huge challenge, ... We only had about a half day's rehearsal and were supposed to film for two nights but only did one night. I also did all my playing by memory without the score in front of me. Maybe the crazy circumstances made it better.

I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

In the film world you don't often get much rehearsal time. Only on big-budget films do you have the opportunity to rehearse for a week or two.

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

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

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.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

A lot of people don't really understand what rehearsal's about. People are afraid they're gonna leave it in the dressing room, or you're gonna shoot your wad in rehearsal.

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

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.

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.

I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who don't believe in it and some actors who prefer not to rehearse.

To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.

'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it's kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It's the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week.

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.

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.

Work is your life, it’s not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days.

There's usually not a lot of rehearsal when you do films.

You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.

I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, "It may appear that I'm going to go haywire, but I'm not." I always map out what I'm going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised.

I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.

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.

I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends. It depends what it would be.

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

This is no dress rehearsal.

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

You have formal rehearsal, a lot of things you don't have in movies - which is, you have to formally rehearse. You have to know your back story, discuss it, and almost everybody onstage has to know each other's [story], so that when it comes time to actually do it, you can throw it all away. That's the way I like to - and I didn't realize until very recently - that's the way I like to prepare for movies.

A lot of my directing we do in the rehearsal process. We don't want to start discussing the character motivation and stuff like that on the set, so we do a lot of that stuff beforehand in rehearsal.