Eric Stonestreet Quotes

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

Acting is what happens on the way.

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.