Ty Burrell Quotes

• You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.

  Ty Burrell

  School, Thinking, Wife

  "Solo Talk With A Family Man". Interview with Angel Cohn, www.brilliantbutcancelled.com. May 5, 2010.

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• If you're trying to make something funny, and it doesn't feel like you're always getting something, it doesn't have quite a lot of joy.

  Ty Burrell

  Joy, Trying, Like You

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Comedy can be fun no matter what you're playing small or big comedy part. It always has the potential to be a blast.

  Ty Burrell

  Fun, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had no real direction at all in my 20's and so I did what a lot of people without direction do: I took an acting class. In one of those first days of the class, I did this weird, silly improv, and it got laughs. It was such a blissful moment. I've never gotten over that love of hearing laughter. As a people pleaser, it's the drug of choice for me.

  Ty Burrell

  Laughter, Real, Silly

  Source: deadline.com

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• I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

  Ty Burrell

  Fun, Real, Character

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2009.

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• There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

  Ty Burrell

  Goal, Problem, Collectives

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And I watch Saturday Night Live religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.

  Ty Burrell

  Sports, Team, Boys

  "Show What He's Really About Solo Talk With A Family Man". Interview with Angel Cohn, www.brilliantbutcancelled.com. May 5, 2010.

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• The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing to admit. I don't know that I'd ever planned to be in this situation. I'm still just an idiot, really really stupid. It's not like I'm now a genius because this has happened. I just got hugely lucky.

  Ty Burrell

  Stupid, Careers, Lucky

  Source: deadline.com

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• My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.

  Ty Burrell

  Brother, Fun, Writing

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they're extraordinary.

  Ty Burrell

  Google, Littles, Carving

  "Ty Burrell Talks BUTTER, His MODERN FAMILY Emmy Win, and Voicing a Role in MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I don't believe, in a show like ours, that you really want to see character growth. That's just my opinion. Maybe to a small degree, but nothing serious. To that end, it doesn't have the same importance that it would have, if you were on an hour-long show. I think an audience gets really hungry for a character to grow and change on an hour-long show, and I think I would be more antsy.

  Ty Burrell

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Working with an incredibly strong script is the thing that gives you the most confidence. If you go into an episode knowing the script is strong, I just feel like that's where it all starts. All collaborations that happen, in addition to that, are just bonuses, at that point.

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  Strong, Knowing, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• It's the opposite on a sitcom. People crave the character to not learn from their mistakes. They want to just see the situation, and then see how that character is going to react to that particular chaotic catastrophe. That's just my take on it, anyway. I don't really get too hung up on what the future of the show is.

  Ty Burrell

  Mistake, Character, Opposites

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

  Ty Burrell

  Clever, Ironic, Watches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The scheduling thing is really weird with TV shows. Certain projects haven't been able to work out because of the schedule, so some of it is out of your control. You don't have very many opportunities. There isn't much time, so you want to make sure you're going to be doing something that you really feel good about or that you're going to have a good creative experience doing. You're taking up vacation time from your job, so you want it to be meaningful.

  Ty Burrell

  Meaningful, Jobs, Opportunity

  Source: collider.com

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• I've done animated TV stuff, but I'd never done animated film work, which is much more involved and much more labor intensive. The animators are much more meticulous and detailed. It's just been really fun and really satisfyingly creative.

  Ty Burrell

  Fun, Creative, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not a technical person, at all, but you get a little bit more of a sense for how to get something done a little bit more efficiently. I think everybody is in that place where it's a little bit more efficient, but the process is still the same, which is still loose and collaborative.

  Ty Burrell

  Thinking, Done, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• Well, that's the great thing about indie film, in general. If it's not subject to the constraints of too much pressure from the studio or marketing, and all of that, you get to actually present fuller characters and you get to have the dark side of the characters. That's usually what gets cut out.

  Ty Burrell

  Character, Cutting, Dark

  Source: collider.com

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• I got a little bit of a sense for the subculture, which is the equivalent of any subculture, really. The stakes are high, even if you live in a small town. It's like the annual bass fishing contests, or whatever it is. The stakes are always absurdly high, and this is no different. The competition at this butter carving things, from what I understand, is not that far off from what we're depicting in the movie.

  Ty Burrell

  Fishing, Competition, Towns

  Source: collider.com

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• When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so I feel like we appreciate it all the more to have all this good fortune come our way, which we hadn't really been planning.

  Ty Burrell

  Crazy, Ambition, Appreciate

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think there are pluses and minuses to being simpleminded. The minus is not having any sort of vision for the future. But on the plus side, my wife and I have really been happy through all of the ups and downs.

  Ty Burrell

  Thinking, Wife, Vision

  Source: deadline.com

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• My father passed away before he saw me perform. I can't help but wonder what he would think of all this. I go to a job in full makeup.

  Ty Burrell

  Jobs, Father, Thinking

  "Memorable quotes from the Emmys" by The Associated Press, www.today.com. September 19, 2011.

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• My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer, I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out.

  Ty Burrell

  Technology, Wife, Arms

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be.

  Ty Burrell

  Taken, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

  Ty Burrell

  Light, Comedy, Film

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2009.

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