Robert Lepage Quotes

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many... Most of the time, I'm alone.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

People aren't throwing themselves at me, but I also don't go out very much. Like, when I do go out, it's for breakfast, so it's a little hard to throw yourself at me during breakfast.

There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer.

Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

It's a little nerve-wracking to stand up on stage all by yourself.

I think actually performing on stage when everyone's facing you and you're one person facing them, that is quite a lonely thing in a strange way. You have to be quite insular from everybody else, you've got thousands of people staring at you and you're just on your own.

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

Alone I'm nothing.

The biggest problem I have doing my acting is having to interact with other people. I think if it wasn't for my wife and my kids, I'd probably be a hermit.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

I don't get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.

I don't have many friends.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go.

You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.'

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it's very hard to get accepted; lots of competition.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

I am honestly very intimidated when I meet new people and they expect me to be the onscreen Vir. On stage, I say a lot of things I might never say in real life; I am never the life of the party. People are quite surprised to see that I am more of a quiet artiste off stage.