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Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

I'm quite the nagger too. I nag at the others when their chatting makes our rehearsals finish later than scheduled.

The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult, no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, 'I understand that. What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it.'

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

Don't wait for miracles. Your whole life is a miracle. Live it up and dare to leave an impact. There is no rehearsal.

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.

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.

It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.

Thought is action in rehearsal.

Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose.

No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.