Jesse Tyler Ferguson recently opened up candidly about the Modern Family lines that people frequently repeat to him. On Monday, March 23, he attended the opening night of *Giant* on Broadway in New York City and spoke with *PEOPLE* magazine about his famous television sitcom, *Modern Family*. Reflecting on his show, which ran for 11 seasons on ABC from 2009 to 2020, the 50-year-old American actor shared the most quoted lines he often hears from fans.
He revealed that the word "Shame" is the one he hears the most, often echoed by his character, Mitchell Pritchett. The *Cocaine Bear* star shared, "People are always saying 'shame' to my face." He also mentioned that fans frequently ask, "Where's Lily?" since his on-screen husband, Cam Tucker (played by Eric Stonestreet), and he often had trouble keeping track of their daughter, Lily Tucker-Pritchett (played by Aubrey Anderson-Emmons).
As the conversation shifted to his latest project, the play *TRU*, Ferguson, who is portraying celebrated author Truman Capote, said, "I'm doing this play very immersively for 99 people a night in a brownstone… a Gilded Age brownstone on the Upper East Side." He added, "That alone really intrigued me—to be able to do a play really intimately. Last summer, I did Shakespeare in the Park for 2,000 people a night, so to do something for 99 people a night just feels so different and so scary."
Notably, Ferguson always seeks out things that "scare" him as well as give him a "challenge." He shared, "And then to do it intimately and also let it be Truman Capote, which is in itself such a hard thing to tackle—it's been a good thing for me because I rarely get scared now. I've done things that have really scared me and they always pay off in dividends. So I'm always looking for the next thing that scares me and this was certainly it."
