I was never a guy who liked to be in the centre of attention.
It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.
I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.
You won't see me searching out red carpets or TV cameras. I'm more comfortable sitting back and letting others enjoy the spotlight.
There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.
I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.
Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.
My dad would throw me in the picture if they needed an extra. From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.
I like not being noticed. It has been a struggle because I love performing, but if I'm in a group of people and someone has a bigger personality, I'm like, 'Go ahead, and have fun!'
I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.
As an actor, your best help is just to shut up and get out of the way.
He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.
I'm very superstitious about going on other people's sets. You have to ask permission of the director; you shouldn't just turn up and skulk about in the background. It's very rude. You have to ask them personally. It's like a vampire being invited into a house.
I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.
I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.
On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence.
