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Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space. -- William Alexander
I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage. -- Rob Corddry
Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings. -- Alan Alda
Backstage at the Victoria's Secret show is pure madness. Big personalities, big hair, and tons of press. -- Erin Heatherton
I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.' -- John C. McGinley
I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding. -- David Walton
I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding. -- David Walton
I got my Backstage Bistro Award, I should just retire. You know, that's a good question and I guess it's really really different for everybody. -- Jason Graae
Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films. -- Mackenzie Davis
'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films. -- Mackenzie Davis
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
What you don't see backstage is what really controls the show. -- Sarah Sutton
I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage. -- Uta Hagen
At Disneyland, you never go 'backstage' - even when you're in the bathroom. -- Hideo Kojima
I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace. -- Christopher Atkins
Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage. -- Germaine Greer
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'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
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
They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage. -- Jonathan Richman
When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it. -- Tracy Chapman
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
I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello. -- Norm Crosby
I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I eventually put them online and started getting this little following. -- Bo Burnham
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
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
It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself. -- Tom Chapin
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
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement. -- Ben Brantley
I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed. -- Kathleen Hanna
I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work. -- Wes Anderson
When we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, my sister and I did a local play. My whole family got involved. My mom did the makeup. My sister and I were being homeschooled, and my parents wanted us to be socialized. We had a lot of fun with the other kids hanging out backstage. -- Danielle Panabaker
My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and we'd come up and see the shows and go backstage afterwards and have dinner together. It was one of my first educations about stars and how they really are back stage. -- Michael Douglas
I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea; I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song. -- Lisa Marie Presley
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
I walked backstage, standing ovation. Everyone was backstage clapping. -- The Miz
I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me. -- Zak Orth
I love being backstage, or doing littler things like Blame Canada. -- Robin Williams
I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out. -- Joely Fisher
I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage. -- Ben Vereen
At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.' -- Adam Levine
Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage -- David Lee Roth
At Disneyland, you never go backstage - even when youre in the bathroom. -- Hideo Kojima
all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay -- Jim Carroll
And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors. -- Jeffrey Tambor
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there. -- Gavin Rossdale
Like backstage, I just peed like every 3 seconds. I think yur staff thinks I have diarrhea. -- Jennifer Lawrence
You had to see him [Marco Rubio] backstage. He was putting on make up with a trowel. -- Donald Trump
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent! -- Bruce Dickinson
I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage! -- Moon Unit Zappa
I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth. -- Zosia Mamet
I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers. -- Rosamund Pike
The majority of celebrities that come to the show actually don't come backstage. Because they don't know that they can. -- Andrew Rannells
The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck. -- Lorna Luft
It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it: The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo. -- Steve Martin
I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes. -- Alber Elbaz
Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.' -- Tori Amos
I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock. -- Richard Bach
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
We went back, afterward, after the show was over that night, I took my kids backstage and said, "You know what? I know my dad's songs... -- Arlo Guthrie
Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage. -- Judy Davis
The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres. -- Terry Teachout
The kids who come backstage that have cancer or whatever, make them laugh and smile for a little while, what's the problem with that? There isn't any. -- Jeff Dunham
In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage. -- Virginia Postrel
I saw her backstage and said hi, took a picture with her. Tried to get a convo going, but the kid had know idea wut to think! -- Randy Orton
Most women can't handle the reality of what comes with being with me. It takes a very secure woman to be backstage at a concert hearing 15,000 females going crazy. -- Tyrese Gibson
I'm in a band, and I know exactly who those girls are. I know exactly what goes on backstage. I wish I had a little leash to walk him around. -- Gwen Stefani
[John Cassavetes] came backstage afterwards and introduced himself and we talked a bit, and then went for a little coffee at the Russian Tea Room next door. It just...started. -- Gena Rowlands
Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly. -- Steve Swallow
One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there. -- Babatunde Adebimpe
I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens. -- Donald Miller
I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession. -- Nafisa Joseph
Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses. -- Jodi Benson
I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan? -- Freddie Mercury
I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive. -- Jason Alexander
I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later. -- Stephin Merritt
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
Meeting Justin Bieber was interesting. We were backstage at The Voice, and he was there premiering his "Boyfriend" music video. I was in six-inch heels, so I was towering over him like a giant. -- Erin Willett
The most intimate moments in the world don't happen in nightclubs or backstage or even on the movie screen. They were moments like this: sitting silently, comfortably, holding hands on a darkened bedroom floor. -- Georgia Clark
I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on. -- Garry Marshall

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