Top 135 Quotes & Sayings by T. J. Miller

I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.

I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.

Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.

It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!

I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway.

I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.

I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.

I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'

'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' - there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.

I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 - the area code, not the band - Mile High, until I die. I'm 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don't glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep.

Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.

I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.

Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.

I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.

You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.

I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.

I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.

I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

I think it is very important to be a method actor.

It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity.

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.

I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.

Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the 'Koch Brothers', you know? Don't be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like 'Leafly', which does what 'Yelp' has done, but in a much more specific way, and it's important because it's the dawn of this new era.

I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

I actually prefer Twitter as a medium, and I also got into Periscope for a second, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with it. I can't figure out if the only important thing about it is the live broadcast, or if it's an interesting kind of way to log what you do.

The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.

I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.

I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.

I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.

My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.