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Quotes About Offstage

I hope that subsidised theatres continue to be rewarded for the wonder of talent they provide to this industry, on stage and off.
~ Marianne Elliott
And more than anything, we are a pretty awkward society when it comes to talking about dying. It's supposed to happen offstage, in hospitals, and no one wants to dwell on it too much.
~ Will Schwalbe
If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.
~ Brandon Victor Dixon
'Breaking In' shows what it's really like backstage at New York Fringe Theatre.
~ Andrew Keenan-Bolger
But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
~ David Copperfield
Most people think the character I do onstage is the way I am offstage, but I'm just a regular guy who spends time with his family and who turns on the television and watches a lot of sports.
~ Don Rickles
Kwon Ji Yong is searching for the comfort and reliable people that G-Dragon doesn't have offstage.
~ G-Dragon
Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.
~ Joe Rogan
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
~ Gustav Mahler
I have a big persona onstage sometimes, but offstage, I'm super shy. Like, I don't want to perform for people - I'd rather die than sing in a room for someone.
~ Lindsay Mendez
I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.
~ Jefferson Mays
When you're onstage, part of you wants to be off as fast as possible. And once you're offstage, everything is in anticipation of the next time you're on.
~ Bill Irwin
The word obscene can be thought of as meaning "out of the scene" or "offstage."7
~ Gene Edward Veith Jr.
I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?
~ Jeffrey Combs
My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.
~ Steven Wright
When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.
~ Bernie Mac
Art Is Socialism, but Life Is Capitalism "My wife made the observation that everyone's equal on stage, but off stage, they're completely unequal." Mike wrote down, "Art is socialism but life is capitalism," and that became a guiding principle for his film Don't Think Twice.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Another vast omission is my failure to have quietly collapsed the Soviet Union and swept the rubble offstage when nobody was looking.
~ William Gibson
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
~ Tom Stoppard
Now enter, single file, the hosts who died early on, in Acts 3 and 4, or between scenes. The miraculous return of all those lost without a trace. The thought that they've been waiting patiently offstage without taking off their makeup or their costumes moves me more than all the tragedy's tirades.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.
~ Beyonce Knowles
I go out of my way to acknowledge the public and let them know that I'm not always on stage. Offstage, I care. I live their life.
~ Charles Bradley
It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.
~ John Irving