Off-Stage Quotes

Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

People say that I'm quite grumpy and negative on stage and that I surely can't be like that off it, but I really am.

I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it.

My memory is quite good, except when I'm off stage.

That I walk around calling people 'dummy' and 'hockey puck'. I do have a different life apart from being sarcastic on stage. I might kibitz around with my friends, but I'm nothing like the person who does stand up. Nothing like that.

Off stage, I'm very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

I'm very quiet off stage.

When I'm not on stage, I always try to wear something comfy.

I'm very reserved when I get off stage.

What's cool is that Oprah is the same person on stage and in front of a camera as she is off stage and behind the scenes. She speaks the same way on camera as she does off camera.

I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So I do a lot of theatre, but really, as with most actors, I just love going from one to another. It's stimulating, it's diverting, it's a different way of life, and you know, I dearly like a good mix.

As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.