#hears

You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#chair #could #emotional #felt #first

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#conversation #each #every #gig #good

Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out. ↗

— Rider Strong

#cabin #day #fever #finish #going

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#because #begin #begins #blocks #building

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#comes #correct #direct #finds #first

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive. ↗

— Jake Gyllenhaal

#alive #always #another #best #father

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#funny #hard #hard work #lots #rehearsals