Top 89 Quotes & Sayings by Miles Teller

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Miles Teller

Miles Alexander Teller is an American actor. He is most widely recognized for his roles as jazz drummer Andrew Neiman in Whiplash and pilot Lt. Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw in Top Gun: Maverick.

For me, I still have feelings for all of my ex-girlfriends. In different parts of my life, I would miss that person. There's something that drew me to that person, and I shared something with them.
I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'
Maybe some people have been turned off of me because I take what I'm doing pretty seriously, and I don't feel the need to charm everybody. — © Miles Teller
Maybe some people have been turned off of me because I take what I'm doing pretty seriously, and I don't feel the need to charm everybody.
Certain times, I'll choose my words very carefully and maybe come off a little more boring.
I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.
I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.
When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.
I'm a pretty light-hearted person.
I've always felt like I can dance.
People would probably say my mom raised very confident children, but it comes from a place of being comfortable in your own skin.
I was raised middle-class in a small town. I have all my same friends from high school. I'm close with my family. I'm dating a normal girl. So I want to feel people think I'm a man of the people. Because I feel that way.
An anonymous person, which is 99 percent of the people on Twitter, can say my face looks like a foot or I'm Ted Cruz's doppelganger. That doesn't affect me.
I still think you shouldn't use acting as therapy. — © Miles Teller
I still think you shouldn't use acting as therapy.
I like a good pool party.
Respect the person you're with. My philosophy is, if I'm not happier when I'm with you, then there's no reason for me to be with you. I'm happy on my own.
First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.'
I like talking to people.
I think about so many actors I look up to and wonder what people were saying about them at the age of 27 or 28. I'm sure it's not all flattering stuff.
I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.
Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar.
Reed Richards in 'Fantastic Four,' to me, was a huge character departure from, like, 'That Awkward Moment' or anything that I'd just done before that.
I've played drums in bands since I was 16.
So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.
There's nothing I can control about how people see me as a person, but I can control how they think of me as an actor.
My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.
Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.
I used to have a big crush on Andie MacDowell.
I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.
I'm not the kind of person to Google myself, because you'll find whatever you're looking for. If you want to read something that says you're the greatest actor that ever lived, if you want to find something that is pretty hurtful, you'll find it.
Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.
I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music.
I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.
I absolutely do care what people think about me.
I've been told that having an Instagram account will help me book more roles, get more endorsement deals. It makes you more of a brand. But I'm not interested. I want to build my fan base through movies and movies alone.
I used to be very vain about my thumbs. I have fat thumbs. If there's a movie where you see me on the phone, it's not my hands.
I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.
It's hard to get to the right position, to be somebody who is commercially successful and critically acclaimed. That's the sweet spot.
Maybe it's because I came from a small town, but I always did well for myself. — © Miles Teller
Maybe it's because I came from a small town, but I always did well for myself.
It's important to have your own voice.
'Footloose' is a fun movie. If you do it right, people should leave wanting to dance.
Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy.
I can't put much weight into whether the public likes me because the more important thing is that, as an actor, I can truly say that there's not a single director or actor who I've worked with who'd have a bad thing to say about me.
The only thing fame has changed about me is that I'm more self-aware when I go out in public.
The makers of '21 and Over' have been screening it, and I'm getting a lot of comparisons to a young Vince Vaughn.
I'm a pretty strong believer that everything happens for a reason.
When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny.
I really consider acting a high art.
Naked acrobatics are on my resume. — © Miles Teller
Naked acrobatics are on my resume.
I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re going to do with Fantastic Four is going to be very grounded and it made sense to me. When I read the script, I didn’t feel like I was reading this larger-than-life, incredible superhero tale. These are all very human people that end up having to become I guess what is known as the Fantastic Four. So for me it was just a really good story and gives me an opportunity to play something different from my own skin. It’s a proper character and that’s my favorite stuff to do.
My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.
For me, pressure is self-imposed, and it's good for me. The best actors are the most prepared because it's all imaginary and you have to know the character inside out.
If I don't have a schedule in front of me, I do enjoy sleeping. It's important for your body!
I don't trust a girl that doesn't eat. I find that a little sketchy.
At the end of the day, it's hard to keep relationships with people. I've got my family, my best friends and if a girl's gonna be a part of that then it's got to be good. If not, I'm out.
Some girls have crazy eyes. You can spot that!
I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime.
I think my character rallies people together to go out and drink.
When I first started getting into acting, I was doing improv in acting class, and I had done a serious monologue and everyone was cracking up laughing and I went to the drama teacher and said I don't want to be the class clown anymore, I want to do serious work, too, and they loved that, and so I started mixing in drama.
Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form
In most relationships, somebody cares about the other one more and that's usually why you get out of a relationship because it's not reciprocated.
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