Offstage Quotes

"A huge part of my confidence came from audience reaction. I`d had that throughout my life, but when I got to Nashville I realized that I didn`t know who I was offstage. I hadn`t spent a lot of time with that guy, and I didn`t like him very much. I found him geeky and a nerd. He was schizo and unorganized. The guy onstage was focused, with everything centered. The guy offstage was just a wreck."

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model--because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I`m offstage, I`m just like everybody else.

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first actors In Hollywood to start his own production company, and I respected him because he created something he believed in. Nowadays I look to spiritual people, such as Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama, since I`m always asking myself, `What do I have to give?`

`I knew I was in trouble when I couldn`t make it offstage quick enough to get whatever variety of shit I was tipping down me. I thought to myself: There are people working in gas stations, and all these menial jobs, to put money aside to see the Ozzfest, and I`m more interested in going back to the hotel, and doing a bag of white powder, or whatever shit it is I`m on.`

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

He was just magic. He was equally as wonderful offstage as on.