Eric Stonestreet Quotes

Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.

Eric Stonestreet

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Night

• The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Kid

• When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Feelings

• I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • Up
  • Energy

• I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • Family
  • Funny

• My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Baby

• When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Art
  • Girl

• My mom and grandma, growing up, one thing they emphasized was that you need to make sure that anything you put on your skin is also digestible by the body. For example, if something isn't safe for me to eat or consume, it's probably not good for your face. So I do a lot of natural remedies.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Failure

• What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

  

  Ovid
  • Men
  • See
  • Wives

• I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Music
  • Country
  • Years

• I don't think success makes one confident. I think it has more to do with character than circumstance.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Character
  • Success
  • Confident

• Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Growing Up
  • Cousins
  • Gay Man