Daily Inspiration Quote by Rene Auberjonois

Auberjonois is quietly flipping the celebrity script: the real romance of theater, for him, lives in the wiring, the timing, the invisible labor that makes the spotlight possible. Coming from an actor, that’s a small act of rebellion. Performers are trained to be the face; he’s insisting the soul of the art is often offstage, in the “technical end” where cues are called, scenery breathes, and disasters get prevented before the audience even knows they were invited.

The phrasing matters. “Always been fascinated” signals more than a passing respect - it’s a lifelong orientation, a way of belonging that isn’t dependent on applause. And “the other end of the business” does a lot of work: it’s casual, almost throwaway, but it acknowledges theater as industry as much as art. Not “backstage,” not “crew,” but “business,” a word that smuggles in budgets, hierarchy, and the unglamorous reality that art survives because someone knows how to make it run.

The subtext is generosity with teeth. He’s refusing the actor’s default myth of singular brilliance and replacing it with a networked view of creation: friends, collaborators, specialists. In an era that rewards branding and individual stardom, he’s pointing to a different kind of prestige - competence, craft, and loyalty to the collective machine. It reads less like humility theater and more like a declaration of where he actually feels at home.