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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
#Together
#Writing
#Younger
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
#Care
#Future
#Me
#Mustache
#Stage
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
#Advice
#Dad
#Looking
#Start
#Time
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
#Blind
#Comfortable
#Just
#People
#Place
I'm prone to hyperbole.
- Ty Burrell
#Hyperbole
#Prone
When you get on a comedy show, people assume you're a comedian. I'd say I'm more of a comedy nerd.
- Ty Burrell
#Comedy
#More
#People
#Say
#Show
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
#Difficult
#Funny
#Modern
#Watch
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
#Explained
#Know
#Me
#School
#Wife
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
#Father
#Hard
#Look
#Seed
#University
I don't know why, but it seems to be a common story for actors and comedians to have a tendency to be bad students and have difficulty focusing on things.
- Ty Burrell
#Bad
#Comedians
#Know
#Story
#Why
I can't grow a beard.
- Ty Burrell
#Beard
#Grow
My dad was a fiercely funny guy, and he and his brother would get on runs. So my younger brother and I were basically mimicking them when we started goofing off.
- Ty Burrell
#Brother
#Dad
#Funny
#Guy
#He
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
#Boy
#Live
#Night
#Sports
#Watch
My favourite game is wiffle ball, a fake version of baseball with a plastic ball and bat that's really for kids.
- Ty Burrell
#Ball
#Baseball
#Bat
#Fake
#Game
I'm not taciturn and stoic.
- Ty Burrell
#Stoic
#Taciturn
I'm an obsessive sports fan, which my wife is incredibly patient about.
- Ty Burrell
#About
#Fan
#Patient
#Sports
#Wife
People discuss parenting the way they talk about denominations of faith.
- Ty Burrell
#Faith
#Parenting
#People
#Talk
#Way
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