Eric Stonestreet Quotes

The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.

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• I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Future
  • Boring

• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Los Angeles
  • Angeles
  • Los

• A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • War
  • Easy

• The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Small
  • Living
  • Iron

• When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Work
  • Understand

• I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Desire
  • Someone
  • Chef

• I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Live
  • Want
  • Way

• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Religion
  • Learn

• Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Names
  • Early

• Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Technology

• The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Sun
  • West
  • Horizon

• I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Like

• In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Unique

• 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Women
  • Day
  • End

• Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Value
  • Politics
  • Ignorant

• We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going. It's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • People
  • Work
  • History

• I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Imagination

• Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Children
  • Age
  • Literature

• I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Book
  • Stop
  • Reading

• Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Language
  • Word
  • Meaning

• When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Character
  • Man

• The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Character
  • Goal
  • Actor