Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
All Quotes by author - Eric Stonestreet
" A lady passed me a note in Australia one time that said, 'My daughter gets bullied at school because she has two moms, and you know, we told her just to tell them to watch 'Modern Family.' "
Family
Time
School
" All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and started looking at what was available - I obviously couldn't play Gloria; I couldn't play Claire. When I saw the character of Cam, I was like, 'I have to have a shot at this,' because I thought it was a character that would be really fun to play. "
Job
Character
Fun
" Bringing up a child in a loving relationship is the most important thing. "
Relationship
Child
Important
" Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man. "
Growing Up
Man
Cousins
" I got dared to audition for a play by my best friend Paul. He got cast in 'Hamlet,' and I got cast in 'Prelude to a Kiss,' and that changed everything. "
Best
Best Friend
Play
" I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I justified it is that... because I'm on TV, I shouldn't be eliminated from participating in what's going on in the world. But people are always like, 'I can't believe you're on a dating app!' "
Dating
People
You
" I'm a full-contact actor, meaning that I love to act in my toes and in my fingers, and I just try to keep it surprising. "
Try
Actor
Love
" I'm always open to meeting people, but I would be lying if I didn't say that my trust issues have changed because of 'Modern Family.' "
Say
Trust
Meeting
" I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate. "
Play
Remember
Hate
" I'm a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows. "
Cows
Up
Pigs
" I never thought I would be somewhat of a gay icon. "
Would
Thought
Never
" I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations. "
Me
Music
Situations
" I took a sociology class, and I got an A in it. Then I found out you could get an emphasis in criminal justice. I wanted to be an administrator. "
Justice
Class
Sociology
" I've never lived in New York. I've never done a play off or on Broadway, so I think that's in my future. Have that experience - get a little apartment in the city and grow a beard and walk around with earbuds in my ears, and a stocking cap and a big giant scarf. "
New York
Future
Experience
" I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened. "
Student
Class
Great
" My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road. "
Business
Sitting
Road
" My job was to give 'The Secret Life of Pets' production team lots of options when it came to Duke. So that's what I always tried to do. "
Options
Life
Always
" My mom has this ugly Santa ornament, and one year, I took it off the tree and clipped it to her pillow. We've been trading it back and forth ever since - 16 years now. I wore it to the Golden Globes and even put it in her bird feeder. As the birds eat, it's slowly revealed. "
Bird
Mom
Tree
" My mom's passionate and energetic and very funny and enthusiastic. "
Passionate
Energetic
Very
" No, I'm not gay. "
Gay
" On an animated television series, you pretty much read the script as written. Whereas on an animated feature, you'll sometimes record the same scene multiple times over the course of a year as the filmmakers continue to tweak that part of the movie. "
Television
Sometimes
Over
" People don't realize how long hours are when you're shooting a movie. "
Long
You
Shooting
" Quickly you learn it's way better to have fans talking and caring about you than not. "
Talking
Better
Learn
" The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal. "
You
Actor
Character
" TV is definitely easier hours. "
TV
Definitely
Easier
" When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people. "
Circus
Want
People
Check our other websites:
BookDark
MusicDark