American - Actor | August 22, 1967 -
I can't grow a beard.
Ty Burrell
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I'm not handy.
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I'm not taciturn and stoic.
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There's no private side to acting, which some people find hard. I've drawn inspiration from athletes. They manage to be themselves under the pressure of public scrutiny, and they have it much harder - they have to perform with people yelling at them.
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My favourite game is wiffle ball, a fake version of baseball with a plastic ball and bat that's really for kids.
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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.
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The world can make an actor feel overly important. What I do isn't hard work. It's not ditch digging - which I have done, for one summer. Of course there are times when your fuel tank's low, but even on the hardest days, you are on a film set. You are doing something creative.
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I'm prone to hyperbole.
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When you get on a comedy show, people assume you're a comedian. I'd say I'm more of a comedy nerd.
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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.
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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.
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I grew up on 'Monty Python.'
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