I like to create a good atmosphere in the dressing room.
And then, all of a sudden, you’re like, all that’s great and fun, but Arthur Miller’s in my dressing room. This is the third night he’s been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I’m pretty spoiled right now.
Then as I was wrestling as Terry Boulder. I was on a talk show with Lou Ferrigno, and I was actually bigger than he was! I went back to the dressing room that night and all of the wrestlers go ‘Oh my God you’re bigger than the hulk on TV’ so they started calling me Terry ‘The Hulk’ Boulder.
Being Australian, I sometimes feel I’ll never walk into a dressing room and get that instant credibility because of where I’m from. But that’s fine. Even in Australia, where I’ve had success, I never assumed that people would follow me because of who I am.
Andres is a genius, and it’s an honour to share the same dressing room. I hope to learn a lot from him. Of course, there is only one Iniesta. I have come here to try to create history of my own and learn from these great players.
I’ve always been quiet in the dressing room before the game. I try to focus and give everything.
In the dressing room before kick off, Arsene won’t say a lot.
I have had the same shinpads since I was eight or nine years old. Everyone laughs in the dressing room because of them but I am superstitious with that.
I had my guitar at the set of ‘Lost in Space’ every day. I was the only one in the cast who had a stereo in his dressing room. So while I was in school or when I was in there working with Dr. Smith and the robot, half the rest of the cast was in my trailer listening to their records that they would bring.
Being Australian, I sometimes feel I’ll never walk into a dressing room and get that instant credibility because of where I’m from.
But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing – I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?
Every dressing room should have a few proper bottles of bubbly.
Diego Costa is the one who plays around a lot, who jokes a lot in the dressing room. It’s just his way, joking around with all of us, every hour of every day.
Each transfer brings a change to the dressing room that I must protect – that is my job.
When I arrived at Juventus as the manager in 1999, Antonio Conte was the captain of the club, an Italy international, and a player who had a lot of influence in the dressing room – and when I needed a leader in the team, he was the obvious choice.
Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don’t seem to matter. It’s constant and harsh sometimes.
I made so many jokes about poor Russell Crowe, he once knocked on my dressing room door, and told me he wanted to go out on this chat show we were on to laugh with me. Now he’s ruined it. I can’t make another joke about him.
It’s one thing to sit back and say, ‘Hey let’s play a club, that will be great,’ but then you get there and say, ‘Hey wait, this is the dressing room? Where’s my dressing room?’
I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room – I love that so much.
One of the main things I take away is just the way the boys approach the game and carry on. You are in the dressing room and it is very much just about getting in and doing as well as you can, putting everything you can and having fun. There is no underlying context to it other than just playing the game.
When I first showed up at Villa I thought we had a weird old dressing room.
I’m not the most open player; I’m not the biggest clown. I just like going into the dressing room easy.
Wijnaldum always tries to do some jokes inside the dressing room. He’s always winding people up. He always tries to speak in Portuguese or Spanish with us and dancing.
That was how we categorised ourselves in the dressing room – you were either a nerd or a Julio. Julios have got to look perfect – the hair has got to be perfect, they’ve got to have the right gear on, it’s all about their appearance. The nerds weren’t bothered about how they looked.
I’d always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
There were times we were kept in our dressing room until late at night because it wasn’t safe to go home. Our bus would get attacked, the tires slit.
It’s an incredible feeling when you look across the dressing room and see Andres, Leo, Luis and Sergio Busquets, and everyone else. They are players I used to watch on TV or play with on PlayStation, and now I am sharing the same dressing room. It’s incredible for me.
I’d love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!
Some leaders speak a lot in the dressing room, on the field and others do it with actions contributing important things in games, deciding big games.
You have different characters in the dressing room. If you have a go at someone, someone might answer back, other people will take it and speak afterwards.
I’d never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
I don’t have a reputation of being a super-witch who demands pink rugs in the dressing room.
Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.
That’s what Brazilians are like – we’re always having a laugh, we’re always smiling, and my aim is to bring this spirit into the dressing room and onto the pitch, to play with a smile on my face.
I don’t have a gym membership. I usually do a bit of basic yoga or stretches at home or in my dressing room before the show. I’ve done plank for 60 seconds almost every day since 2009, when I had to wear a bikini onstage in ‘South Pacific.’
I shared a dressing room with Alan Shearer. I used to watch the opposition looking at him, and they’d be thinking they need to score more than one because Shearer is going to score, and he scores every game. That psychological advantage is fantastic.
Ancelotti speaks a lot with his players, creates a very close-knit atmosphere, and the Real Madrid dressing room was very sad when he left.
There was a lot of passion with Klopp, I felt that most in the dressing room before games. He always had a big smile. He hugged every player. I loved his attitude – he was never nervous. He gave us confidence.
I love ’80s music, but in the dressing room, it tends to be more lively!
When you have confidence, the atmosphere in the dressing room also improves.
Abidal was a player; he is loved by the fans, and that’s why he should know what it’s like inside the dressing room and how players feel.
In the dressing room there is nothing better than when a good player walks through the door and the guys say ‘I’m glad he’s come along.’
My show mode is that the dressing room is like going into the cockpit. Going down the stairs is like going on the runway, and once we begin performing, it’s flight time. I’m just floatin’ on that stage.
You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn’t know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
I can’t imagine leaving the theatre altogether. My dressing room has become a home from home.
The day I came in and found another actor’s name on my dressing room door, and my stuff out in the hall, that was the day I learned my lesson.
When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.
I don’t like to be rushed. I plan my outfits for the week in advance. I find the appropriate outfit for each occasion, try it on, make sure it is in good condition and have it all ready with shoes, handbag and accessories laid out in my dressing room. Fashion is such a huge part of my career, I have to think ahead.
What I miss about football is being in the dressing room. But do I miss three o’clock on a Saturday afternoon when matters are totally out of your hands? No, I don’t. Do I miss placing my destiny in the hands of others? No, I don’t. I loved it as a player. I liked it as a manager. But that’s all come and gone.
While other people were dreaming of big cars and houses, I just wanted a huge dressing room.
When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from ‘Sesame Street’ wasn’t enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people’s couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn’t dare ask, though.
I like to pick out a certain part of each show I’m in and I watch it when I’m not onstage or in my dressing room. I’ll go down to the stage and watch that part of the show each night.
If you can’t stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen.
I like to personalise my dressing room, have a cover for the bed and, if it is a long run, a few cushions and a teapot – a little pot for one.
You ask the guys in the dressing room, I am a very bad loser.
