Eric Stonestreet Quotes

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.

I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.

You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.

I've been working very hard off-off-off-off-off-off-off Broadway and doing little films and really sweating my butt off in tiny little black boxes.

I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience.

I hope I get the chance to keep acting in great projects.

I was an actor in New York, dude.

I was really pretentious in a sense and was like, 'I'm going to drama school to learn the craft.'

I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.

I moved to New York City in the '80s to be an actress and to be on Broadway. That was always my dream.

Post my graduation, I really thought that acting was something I wanted to do. I simply took a chance and started auditioning, and I loved it.

I had a lot of friends who dreamed of being actors, and as I hung out with them, I became more interested in it.

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

I never did drama in high school or anything like that. I just kind of fell into it after college, and I pursued it on my own.