Background Work Quotes

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background.

There have been a couple of things I've been involved in launching that have been a bit more public, but I've always had other things tipping away in the background.

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.

The way that I write is I just write a ton of music in the background of my life, and then I just bring it into rehearsal. It's, like, 'Okay, guys. It goes like this. Let's smooth it out.'

I entered the film industry as a background dancer and then gradually rose step by step. Now I am a judge and a filmmaker, but amongst everything, my personal favourite continues to be dancing, as it is what has led me to the rest.

It's unfortunate that some people do not see what entertainers do in the background, but many of us do so much work with causes. You know some people have chewed me out, saying things like, "Oh why could you post pictures in your dresses and meanwhile they killing black men on the street?" I'm thinking, excuse me do you know what I did today? Do you know what I'm doing right now while I'm reading this post? So I think a lot of celebrities get a bad rap because people see the surface.

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

Some people think it's an easy gig working as an extra, but you often have to stay very concentrated for long stretches in challenging conditions.

I got to the point where I'd featured on songs; I'd done backing singing for major artists. I'd done all these shows, but it was always for other people.

The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.