Ty Burr Quotes

My dad was a dentist but I wasn't a hygienist. I assisted my dad.

I loved the [English] countryside. I went to John Bonham's grave.

I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it.

If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.

[I'm] more German than Irish.

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

I consider Ric Flair to be one of the great comedic minds. But I never got to see him growing up because that was back when they still had territories.

Michael Price is the showrunner so nobody works harder than him.

I've had a great time on the road, I would say shooting guns with a silencer in Jacksonville, Fla.

I have fun doing movies, I’ve had fun doing the animated show, and I certainly have fun doing standup. Even that, even though it’s just me talking, it’s also interaction with the crowd.

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

The whole city [Manchester] just a real rock music vibe. It reminded me a lot of where I'm from.

As a big music fan, England is an amazing place to go.

I have to make small adjustments, but I can't change too much. If I'm worrying about that stuff too much then the show isn't as funny.

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

Working on the Dave Chappelle show was amazing.

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.

Frank is capable of any kind of behavior to win.

Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil.

Those were my children being slaughtered.

People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

Climate change is real and humans do contribute to those changes.

The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change.

The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.

I'd love to tell you that something is going to change tomorrow. But the reality is that it won't.

No one can get to the Right of me.

We must engage in a whole-of-government approach to combat Russian active measures.

If there are witnesses the government interviewed who suggest other people were involved or that Tim McVeigh was not involved, those are critical matters that would have to be investigated.

This is a limiting factor in the way we have been able to help, ... We need to determine to what extent does an 'emergency declaration' go.

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.

In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.

One of the most visually beautiful movies you can see on the big screen.

I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is.

Never less than bizarrely delightful. The monster is mesmerizing.

Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.

All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.

The problem with freedom is that when people have it, they do what they want to.

Don’t you wonder sometimes, ” Miranda asked, “whether women have all the power or no power at all?

The things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.

That’s what nobody admits about men, how needy they are.

Don't overestimate everyone else and underestimate yourself

Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.

We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.

To the union of all honest men.