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Ty Burrell

(1967) Actor United States

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Ty Burrell is an actor from the United States, best known for Art of Mr. Peabody and Sherman.

Quick Facts About Ty Burrell

Born: August 22, 1967
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Art of Mr. Peabody and Sherman
Known for: Muppets Most Wanted, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Finding Dory, Storks

About Ty Burrell

Tyler Gerald Burrell is an American actor. Burrell is best known for playing Phil Dunphy on the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

Quotes by Ty Burrell

The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very…

Careers

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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.

Baseball

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I'm not handy.

Handy

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And I watch 'Saturday Night Live' religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of…

Boys

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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…

Cinema

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I'm prone to hyperbole.

Hyperbole

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A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They…

Arms

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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…

Acting

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You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to…

Culinary

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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…

Brother

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It's kind of a crazy thing with kid actors because a lot of them get hired without people really knowing if they're…

Age

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I don't believe, in a show like ours, that you really want to see character growth. That's just my opinion. Maybe to…

Audience

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I think there are pluses and minuses to being simpleminded. The minus is not having any sort of vision for the future.…

Dreams

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I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need…

Advice

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I am very lucky that I came from a stable home, but I didn't know what I wanted to do with my…

Acting

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I've done animated TV stuff, but I'd never done animated film work, which is much more involved and much more labor intensive.…

Animated

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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…

Dad

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Comedy can be fun no matter what you're playing small or big comedy part. It always has the potential to be a…

Comedy

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I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I…

Blind

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I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick…

Carving

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I grew up on 'Monty Python.'

Grew

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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

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I'm an obsessive sports fan, which my wife is incredibly patient about.

About

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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.

Comedian

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There's nobody in my family that's in performance or in the business in any way, so it was not something that was…

Business

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