'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.

- Cory Michael Smith

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

- Ewan McGregor

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

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

- Dylan Moran

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

- Donald Pleasence

Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we'd have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants.

- Denis Leary

Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.'

- Denis Leary

But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.

- Debbie Allen

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

- Damian Lewis

'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.

- Charles Shaughnessy

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

- Anna Friel

Life is not a rehearsal.

- Charlie Bell

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

- Clarke Peters

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

- Christine Lahti

I do have a vague recollection of reviving the cover of The Beatles' 'Every Little Thing,' but I don't know if that was just our riffing on it in rehearsal. I don't think we ever did it actually in the show.

- Chris Squire

When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.

- Ben Schnetzer

In terms of the series, we worked separately, getting together in rehearsal to beat out the material.

- Bruce McCulloch

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

- Brad Dourif

We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal.

- Benny Green

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

- Barbara Kingsolver