Work Backstage Quotes

#1. My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

Katie Leclerc

#2. The first thing I say when someone says they want to be an actor is, 'Go get 'Backstage.' You know what's going on, you know who's doing what, and there's work that you can find in there. It's an incredible resource, and there's nothing else like it.

Geneva Carr

#3. I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

Guy Davenport

#4. Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth, yea, doubtless, with many that are now in this congregation, that, it may be, are at ease and quiet, than he is with many of those that are now in the flames of hell. So

Jonathan Edwards

#5. Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

Pieter Zeeman

#7. I belong nowhere and to no one.

Waris Dirie

#8. I'm here to shine a bright light. I'm not here to be a guy of death. I just like 'KD' better.

Kevin Durant

#9. So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.

Linda Lavin

#10. 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

#11. Comics are about the illusion of movement, and movies are about movement itself.

Jason Henderson

#12. It is only through love, tolerance, humility and the understanding of our own fragility that we can begin to find our humanity and, in turn, extend that humanity to others.

Tosha Michelle

#13. Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.

George Eliot

#15. What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets up a degree where things can be shared ... It's like 50% off ... You can let something of another emotion or another personality sign on your work, or co-sign it.

Richard Prince

#16. If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

Barry Goldwater

#17. 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

#18. Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against entropic noise. Order is not spontaneous, but it is a necessary condition for all the surprises of freedom and opportunity.

George Gilder