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.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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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.
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And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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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.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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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.
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But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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I'm Latin - we start young, honey!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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I'm trying to carry on my dad's legacy, and it is tough.
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If you take the knowledge out of my head and take the experiences that I have, I'm broke. I'm nothing.
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The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'
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When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.
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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.
