Eric Stonestreet Quotes

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

Actors are always looking for the eyes of the other actors because you need help and you need connection.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.

As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.

I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.

I don't get bored at all while acting.

Acting is a symbiotic process, it is an amalgamation of many many things put together and when there is a call for action, that's when you surrender and the moment of truth comes out, that's when you perform. That is the process for every good actor.

In theater acting, you leave that night and what it was is what it was.

It's very rare to be able to do a show where the most important thing is being funny.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

You have to like the characters you play.

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.