I like to really spend the time and figure it out and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work. It's hard to do that, because you always want to go with your impulse thought and you wonder if that's the one, did that work, you know?
I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.
It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.
I think there's a percentage [of the audience] that don't realize, that don't know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It's more of a ... it's not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.
My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.
My first memories of life were in rehearsal; thats why I can sleep through anything.
The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.
For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.
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.
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'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.
Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.
I've done films where we don't rehearse and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.
I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.
An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.
I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.
I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.
Nobody could disappear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.
[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that.
There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.
