Top 135 Quotes & Sayings by T. J. Miller - Page 2

If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.

I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.

If you're a comedian, you can change peoples lives for the better in much smaller increments - not their entire life, but for 15 minutes or a half hour.

Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.

I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.

Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.

Hosting is a thankless job.

I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.

I don't get along much with myself.

A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'

I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.

'Silicon Valley' is a great show. It might be the best comedy on television. And if the Academy feels I have stood out to the point of deserving an award, I won't pawn it.

I listen to 'deep dish house'.

Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.

I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.

Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.

We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.

I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

I like when people don't know what to expect.

I don't know that I would host the Golden Globes or the Emmys because I don't think they have the appreciation for irreverence that the Critics Choice does.

I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.

I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.

My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.

Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.

When you spend such a large portion of your life working - and it's not fun, and you're worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party - then what has work done to America? That's the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party.

When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.

Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.

Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.

When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you're like, 'Come on, dude.' Every woman likes the confidence and self-respect that says, 'I get oil changes. I look after my vehicle.' That's what I recommend: Act like you don't care, but take care of your body.

I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.

'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.

Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.

I do believe that in the future there will be a movie called 'Deadpool vs. Wolverine'.

I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.

I'm the easiest person to make fun of.

Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.

It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

I find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique.

Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.

I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.

Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.

'Guardians of the Galaxy' is tongue-in-cheek and has a sense of humor about itself. But it's nothing like 'Deadpool.' 'Deadpool' is this super-bizarre thing. The best thing about it is that it's R-rated.

There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.

If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.

Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

I'm not, like, an action-hero guy.

Sometimes, things need to be so understated on film that I don't even see them as funny, which isn't my favorite style, comedically. When I watch film comedy, I like people that are a little bit more alive on the screen and wound up. I like volatility and unpredictability and other long words like those.

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.

If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.