Rhys Darby Quotes

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.

A touring comic's typical day roughly amounts to an hour of being laughed at and 20 minutes of being photographed. The other 22 hours and 40 minutes are spent in silence.

Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.

My family is very close. I can't say that about many people I meet in Hollywood.

Let me tell you something - compared to a TV-drama production schedule, touring is not strenuous.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

Touring gets really lonely.

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.

In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.

I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don't get to see my family and friends as much as I'd like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax.

Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.

Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

I rarely meet other young actors.

Being an actor can be a lonely life.

I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.

I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.

Money is lonely anyway. When you got it, people always want it. You don't want to be used; sometimes you don't know where a cat is comin' from.