65 Quotes by Ty Burrell

I spent most of my formative years in rural Oregon.

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.

I'm prone to hyperbole.

When you get on a comedy show, people assume you're a comedian. I'd say I'm more of a comedy nerd.

I'm glad I had to wait until my 40s for success. I was not a mature young man and would probably have gone off the rails.

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.

I grew up on 'Monty Python.'

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.

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.