Top 28 Ty Burrell Quotes
#1. Ty Burrell could be one of the funniest people on the planet. I'd love to meet him.
Brooke Elliott
#2. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.
Ty Burrell
#7. In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City College. At that time, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a young painter and was visiting L.A. for his first show at the Larry Gagosian Gallery.
Tamra Davis
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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.
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#13. 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
#14. 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.
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#15. There are good and bad things in all political systems.
Herman Wouk
#16. 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
#17. 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.
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#18. I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.
Mike Gayle
#19. 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
#20. I oppose registration for the draft ... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.
Ronald Reagan
#21. 7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.
Jasper Fforde
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.
S.A. Tawks
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. It was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, a
colour canvas of supernatural proportions, truly a splendid Pacific sunset, quite wasted on me.
Yann Martel
#28. 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