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 More Quotes by Ty Burrell More Quotes From Ty Burrell 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 carving google littles 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. Ty Burrell strong knowing giving 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 character believe thinking 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 opposites mistake character 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 opportunity meaningful jobs I'm not very romantic. My idea of romance is more practical - like washing the car. Ty Burrell more like car romantic I am very lucky that I came from a stable home, but I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life until acting sorted of landed in my lap when I was in my 20s. Acting, to me, was a bit like the ladder I used to climb out of feeling lost. Ty Burrell i-am me home life I'm not taciturn and stoic. Ty Burrell taciturn stoic Our house was a place where you were welcome to make an idiot out of yourself. Silliness was valued. My dad worked with foster kids in the foster care system, and I think silliness was a way for him to leaven things up. Ty Burrell yourself you welcome dad Everything I do from now on, I'll have a mustache. I can promise you that. I don't care who I have to convince. If you see me with a mustache in a movie or on stage in the future, you'll know that I pitched the idea. Ty Burrell me you future care I spent most of my formative years in rural Oregon. Ty Burrell rural most oregon years After my father passed away in 1989, I fell pretty hard for theater as an undergraduate at the University of Oregon. Before he died, he planted the seed that maybe I should look into performing. Ty Burrell seed look university father I'm an obsessive sports fan, which my wife is incredibly patient about. Ty Burrell about patient wife sports My wife has taught me about unconditional love. When there's a conflict, there's never a thought that we won't work it out. Ty Burrell me wife work love Once you do a show like 'Modern Family,' which has been an amazing thing, and I'm so happy about it, it does make it a little challenging to do other things. Ty Burrell amazing you family happy I was a bouncer for, like, three months in Boston until everybody figured out that I should never be a bouncer. I'm so soft. I just have no aggression in me. Ty Burrell never like me three It's kind of a crazy thing with kid actors because a lot of them get hired without people really knowing if they're good or not. They get hired for the way they look at a really young age. You also have your fingers crossed around kid actors... because the lessons they learn on set aren't always the best. You can really get whatever you want. Ty Burrell best good you age People discuss parenting the way they talk about denominations of faith. Ty Burrell parenting faith people way Comedy can be fun no matter what you're playing. It always has the potential to be a blast. Ty Burrell you comedy matter fun There's nobody in my family that's in performance or in the business in any way, so it was not something that was encouraged as a profession. It was more just encouraged as a personality trait. Ty Burrell nobody family business personality
