Eric Stonestreet Quotes

For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.

I do a lot of family shows.

I started performing in 1950 at the age of 16 when I joined the Burton Lester's Midgets as a performer. Shortly after, I became a DJ with Mecca Organization before joining Billy Smart's Circus as a clown and shadow Ringmaster.

I am not a circus performer.

The first thing I wanted to be was a clown.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.

When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.

I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.

Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.

And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.

In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry.

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

As a kid, I wanted to be a musician but also aspired to be Andy Griffith's lawyer character, Ben Matlock.

From baby time to now, I wanted to be a Disney princess, and then I wanted to be a singer or an actress.

As comedians, we work our whole lives hoping for a break.