Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now. — Judith Malina
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. — Martha Graham
Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation. — Eric Butterworth
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time. — Frank Shorter
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop. — Jack Youngblood
To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice. — Seve Ballesteros
The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner — Sayings
Deliberate practice is for preparation, and flow is for performance. — Angela Duckworth
You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles. — Stan Getz
Life is not a rehearsal. Each day is a new show. No repeat, no rewind, no retake. — Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan
The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies. — Rush Limbaugh
Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose. — Andrew Wommack
Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal? — Jaco Pastorius
The truth needs so little rehearsal. — Barbara Kingsolver
No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best. — Jim Jarmusch
At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like. — Thomas Beecham
You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't. — Clarke Peters
Rehearsal Image Quotes
Enjoy life now. This is not a rehearsal.
Life Is Not A Dress Rehearsal Quotes
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
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
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 Basset
Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night. — Peter J. Daniels
Your life is not a dress rehearsal - this is it! It's show time! — Denise Austin
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
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
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. — Anna Quindlen
It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well. — Yanni
Dance Rehearsal Quotes
So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance. — Benjamin Harkarvy
The more and more that you dance, the easier it gets, and the more you can push yourself and do more rehearsals. — Jonathan Bennett
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. — Jessie Matthews
I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.' — Zac Efron
There were days on that show where I had to go in and record a song, then I had to rehearse the dance for that song, and then I had to go and shoot a separate scene. That would be one day. So yeah, it was about the value of time and being prepared, and not to freak out. — Blake Jenner
I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance. — Paul Taylor
I actually do a lot of Pilates and try to hike every day that I'm home. Also, I dance SO much in my shows and at rehearsals! — Tinashe
My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around. — Leonard Slatkin
The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually. — Anne-Marie Duff
Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front'. She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer. — Caity Lotz
Theatre Rehearsal Quotes
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
I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul. — Christopher Eccleston
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience. — Judd Nelson
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
Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part. — John Deacon
I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location. — Peter Weir
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
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
There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines. — Keeley Hawes
Dress Rehearsal Quotes
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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
Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead. — John Banville
Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity. — Gary Zukav
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead. — Nora Ephron
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
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
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
Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death. — Adyashanti
Life Is Not A Rehearsal Quotes
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. — Wayne Dyer
Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to put on a show. The rest of your life is rehearsals, prepping in the wings to be fabulous online. — Lauren Beukes
I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.' — Chelsea Clinton
Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it. — Mike Watt
After all - life is not a dress rehearsal! — Richard Branson
This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life. — Bill Murray
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. — Hugh Jackman
Work is your life, it’s not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days. — Mario Testino
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
Unrehearsed Quotes
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. — Sean O'Casey
Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers. — Bill Watterson
Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements. — Yoko Ono
My style is the paparazzi approach which is spontaneous, unrehearsed, off-guard. The beauty I'm after is inherent, more natural. Genuine emotions, real emotions, that's what I look for. — Ron Galella
The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed. — Kate Braverman
All my performances have been unrehearsed. — Rishi Kapoor
Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary. — Jeb Bush
Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed. — Tom Sizemore
There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course. — Terence Fisher
All the people on my team worked hard and diligently to ensure all aspects of the production were thought-out and rehearsed. — MrBeast
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things. — Jonathan Raban
Alfonso Cuarón, in the rehearsals, without J.K. Rowling's knowledge, told me that [my character] was, in fact, gay. So I'd been playing a part like a gay man for quite a long time. Until it turned out that I indeed got married to Tonks. I changed my whole performance after that. Just saw it as a phase he went through. — David Thewlis
When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing. — Alice Cooper
Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good! — Erland Josephson
My style is my personality. It's always been that way. Being a wiseguy and having fun. It's always been that way for me, when I was in high school, and in the Navy. It's not something I rehearse. — Don Rickles
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place. — Garth Hudson
Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world. — Tom Baker
Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency. — Junior Seau
We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started. — Charlie Daniels
For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it. — Ron Moody
Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope. — Pope Benedict XVI
I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day. — Mark Strong
I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does. — Jim Jarmusch
I don't even think you should tell the audience you're improvising. It's like an apology in case it's bad : 'we're just making it up' If the improv isn't better than the rehearsed stuff, then you should just rehearse it. — Keith Johnstone
Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing. — Charles Spurgeon
Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence. — Jerry Cantrell
I'm quite the nagger too. I nag at the others when their chatting makes our rehearsals finish later than scheduled. — Seohyun
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? — Milan Kundera
One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not “for good”; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance. — Sybille Bedford
Work was never about wanting fame or money. I never thought about that. I loved getting the job, going to rehearsal, playing someone else, hanging around with a bunch of actors. I needed that, the way you need water. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it. — Laurence Gonzales
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