Backstage Quotes · Page 2

“Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.”

— William Alexander

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

— Ben Vereen

I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

— Zak Orth

I fart. My backstage ritual is flatulence.

— Summer Walker

My dad loves going backstage. I try not to have him give too many jokes to people.

— Lindsay Shookus

If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.

— Ed Asner

When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus.

— Clarence Clemons

'Breaking In' shows what it's really like backstage at New York Fringe Theatre.

— Andrew Keenan-Bolger

“wafting through the open door of a brightly lit office down the musty, darkened corridor of the backstage.”

— Christopher Rice

Most women can't handle the reality of what comes with being with me. It takes a very secure woman to be backstage…

— Tyrese Gibson

I remember being backstage in my full look and the make-up artist said to me: ‘Did you hear? Kendall Jenner is here.’…

— Kendall Jenner

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.

— Chet Faker

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

— Al Pacino

It's an individual sport, but it's far from that backstage. You've got so many people working so that I can go out…

— Vicente Luque

The best times I've had backstage are when you have people around you who genuinely love you, respect your privacy, and have…

— Big Freedia

Working backstage as a teenager made me realise there's not much glamour in this profession - just lots of hard work. That's…

— Joseph Fiennes

One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I…

— Christian Slater

When I first started modeling, I had the chance to walk the runway with Naomi passing by me, but I didn't know…

— Coco Rocha

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer…

— Bo Burnham

The twenty minutes or more we spend inside the ring, that's the fun part. It's the rest of our lives that's the…

— Eddie Guerrero

When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet…

— Luke Bryan

I went to see 'Kinky Boots' to see my friend Billy Porter in his groundbreaking performance. But while backstage, I was hoping…

— LaChanze

What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches…

— Scott Adsit

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

— Adam Levine

Nobody really fights to backstage to see us; were just the opening band.

— Gym Class Heroes

“Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play.”

— Nathanael West

I believe in not whistling backstage and not saying the name of the Scottish play.

— Audra McDonald

I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my life.

— Jonathan Groff

The kids who come backstage that have cancer or whatever, make them laugh and smile for a little while, what's the problem…

— Jeff Dunham

The majority of celebrities that come to the show actually don't come backstage. Because they don't know that they can.

— Andrew Rannells

Backstage at the Victoria's Secret show is pure madness. Big personalities, big hair, and tons of press.

— Erin Heatherton

We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that…

— Lynn Nottage

When I leave backstage, some of the fans ask if I'm a roadie, and I just tell them, 'No, I'm the bus…

— Shawn Crahan

I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's…

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Gavin Rossdale

I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment…

— Rachael Stirling

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

— Vincente Minnelli

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

— Christopher Atkins

I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in…

— Tyra Banks