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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• Laugh
• Roles
• Scared

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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

• reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Men

• Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Why
  • Think
  • Reality

• For me, being Italian, I love pizza. Particularly from Naples. I am obsessed.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Italian
  • Pizza

• When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Truth
  • Impossible
  • Eliminated

• We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Opportunity
  • Fear
  • Enjoy

• 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