Backstage Quotes

I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.
Tyra Banks

Love, Career, Control

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.
Tori Amos

Giving, Head, Hear

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
Jim Henson

School, Small, College

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.
Margaret Cho

Revenge, Friends, After

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
Pete Townshend

Off, Whatever, Until

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.
Pete Townshend

Home, Dad, Dance

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.
David Mamet

Love, Job, Find

But honestly, it's pretty weird; there are girls who'd do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don't know what it is, but really, when you're on national TV in America the girls love you. They all want you! And I'm not complaining!
Kid Rock

Love, Pretty, America

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.
Lorna Luft

School, Career, High

All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.
Roger Daltrey

Hear, Noise, Beatles

At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
Adam Levine

Room, Yoga, Concert

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.
Alex Kapranos

Food, Lazy, Away

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.
Lee Child

Work, Job, Easy

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'
John C. McGinley

Guys, Card, Audition

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
Gavin Rossdale

Pretty, Often, Artist

As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.
Zach Braff

Amazing, Dad, Sports

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.
Germaine Greer

Around, Hotel, Hang

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.
Nia Vardalos

Dad, Wanted, Used

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.
Richard O'Brien

School, Theatre, Drama

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.
Rob Corddry

What you don't see backstage is what really controls the show.
Sarah Sutton

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.
Vincente Minnelli

Nothing, Stories, Musicals

I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.
Christopher Atkins

Beer, Grace, Princess

I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage!
Moon Unit Zappa

Keep, Getting, Stay

Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in the kitchen and winking and corpsing above the heads of our audience, the unsuspecting customers.
Richard Eyre

Waiting, Audience, Above

It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.
Ashley Judd

Funny, Live, After

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
Zosia Mamet

Thought, Earth, Movie

I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.
Joely Fisher

Looking, Kid, Wings

The designers usually don't like to say until we're on the runway. Like when I did Prada last year, I couldn't mention doing Prada or even Tweet or take a picture and put it on Twitter saying I was backstage at the Prada show. And Dolce was the same thing. They like to keep a little surprise, I guess, a little secret for everybody.
Alessandra Ambrosio

Saying, Same, Put

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
Uta Hagen

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