Over-Preparation Quotes

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Future is a real workaholic, so he's the type of guy that's gonna do more than enough songs to make sure you got everything you need.

One time, I was going to be in L.A. for 10 days for a business conference, and I took eight different pairs of sandals.

Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.

NXT prepares you for literally everything for the main roster. They probably over-prepare you.

I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.

Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.

My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.

To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.

If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high.

If I had my way, we'd rehearse things to death.

Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

We love to make sure all the boxes are checked - that we aren't just prepared but over-prepared before we raise our hand. It's that discipline that I love most about women, but it's also what holds us women back the most because by the time we raise our hand, that opportunity is often gone.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

Being over-rehearsed is very bad. It is stilted. The public see that.

I have always felt that doing too much of homework makes the performance look plastic. I don't even watch the monitor after I finish my scene because I can't reprise it. I just go with the flow.

I look at some young commentators who sit down with piles of notes, and of course, what are you going to do if you've spent hours preparing all this stuff? You're going to bloody well read it out. Boring!

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.

I firmly believe that knowing too much too soon can color your performance in a not good way. I just don't want to know until I need to know.

I tend to over-prepare my shot lists.

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.

Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.