Eric Stonestreet Quotes

All I've ever wanted to do is entertain people - make them laugh, think, smile, feel creeped out or scared; whatever it is. I'm getting the opportunity to do that in various roles.

Eric Stonestreet

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• Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Culture
  • Sometimes

• And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Me
  • Word

• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Best
  • Blonde
  • Common Sense

• I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Want
  • Face
  • France

• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Want
  • Garden
  • I Can

• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smart

• I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Work
  • Done
  • Giving

• But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Strong
  • Me
  • Bother

• I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Worth
  • Strife
  • None

• I'm Latin - we start young, honey!

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Start
  • Young
  • Latin

• Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Day

• I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Sleep

• When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Me
  • Problems
  • Working

• I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Culture

• Keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Keep
  • Do
  • Reborn

• My favorite comics show the real-life struggles of heroes as well as the fantastical.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Life
  • Real

• I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Universe

• Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Food
  • Paris

• You know, I get frustrated with our country's administration, which is really the people who are not acknowledging global warming. I mean, it's accepted by scientists around the world, scientists in our country and it's accepted by every country around the world with the exception of the United States.

  

  Jerry Greenfield
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Work
  • Serious
  • Protect

• I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Mistake

• I have always liked my hair when it's braided, because if I don't, it kind of runs in my eyes when I hit.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.

  

  Ismail Kadare
  • Mouth
  • Phrase
  • Swallowed

• All I've ever wanted to do is entertain people - make them laugh, think, smile, feel creeped out or scared; whatever it is. I'm getting the opportunity to do that in various roles.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Opportunity
  • Laugh
  • Roles