Eric Stonestreet Quotes

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

For me, acting is doing.

I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.

The worst acting is about imitation.

Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.

What is important to me as an actor is that, even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain top with my heroine in a chiffon sari, it still has to be me and my twist or my funny take on it.

For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.

Acting is a mysterious process.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I'm just not good at doing that.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.