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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Pixar has the integrity to not rush.
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There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
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Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them
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Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.
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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.
