Top 114 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Middleditch - Page 2

I repurposed an old World War II merchant ship door into one of the best coffee tables you have ever seen. I have also made little cabinets and media centers.

I'm kind of a sports guy.

I know, for myself, I probably work a lot better in that - in the group environment. Only because if I am coming up short, someone else helps.

I wasn't necessarily always funny, I don't know if I necessarily am - some would argue not - but I was definitely, always been a strange one. Definitely always an odd duck.

I understand what scripting and programming is, but do I know how to do it? Not really. But, I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what 'Silicon Valley' has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

I think when you go in, with film or television, you want to tell this narrative. And with 'Joshy,' you want it to be grounded with moments - it's not like, 'Everyone be as funny as you can, quickly, at all times!' It's not like that. You have to pick the right improvisers.

Improv is always seen as something that's funny, but worth a $5 ticket, $10 at most. I think ISC is one of those shows that is worth a real ticket price. It's hard-hitting and great and different every time.

Ricky Gervais, met him a couple times. He wouldn't remember it.

I don't typically pay attention to most things in life, let alone award season. Not because I think it's silly. I just don't typically get caught up in it.

As a kid, I drew comics. I had curly hair. I liked to joke, but I was kind of nervous about it at first until it was coaxed out of me.

I'm a PC guy.

I did a brief visit at Google X, and they have these little push scooters that you can go from one end of the compound to the other, and the floors are very smooth to maximize efficiency of the push scooters.

I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

At the end of the day, I want to play characters that interest me.

Both the benefit and the terrifying aspect of standup is when it's going poorly, you've only yourself to blame. There's no one to bail you out. But when it's going great, all that approval is for you.

I just love action movies. People are like, 'What comedy movies did you grow up watching?' And I'm like, 'Not many.'

I was a little bit of a tech lord. Not a lord. More of a duke or a nobleman. I was into that stuff as a kid. Nothing too crazy.

It's pretty surreal to be doing a show on HBO with pals.

I went from being the shy weirdo to the class clown in a couple of years.

My choice growing up was the 'Star Wars' role playing game. At that time in the Nineties, they had a pretty robust pen and paper system.

Basically, if you like 'Deadpool,' you'll love 'Captain Underpants.'

I want to work with Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers, or Spike Jonze.

When you're an actor who just got his first big chunk of change, and you're like, 'What do I do with it?' you try to look at Silicon Valley, and the learning curve is so huge. Especially on the investor side. I don't want to say it's like Vegas, in a sense, but you do kinda roll the dice on some companies. It's like educated dice rolling.

Scorsese is very nice. He's small; he's energetic.

I'm a military history buff.

I've been a Keanu Reeves fan for a very long time, since 'Bill and Ted' and 'Point Break' and stuff like that.

Just, you know, respect animals and the planet. And don't vote Trump.

It's not about creating 22 episodes indefinitely for as long as you can do.

I don't think anyone sets out to be the evil villain.

It's like PlayStation-Xbox. I like both. So nothing against Mac, but I do use Windows.

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

My nerdy pursuits are more like video games, Dungeons and Dragons, stuff like that.

Over the years, I've had a slight ebbing and flowing of confidence in my non-comedic role abilities.

Sometimes, when comedians get success, they don't do as much weird stuff as they normally do.

A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the audience.

The first home system we had was an Apple II, and I remember playing a game called 'Conan.' It should have been called 'Tarzan' because you were essentially Conan running around a forest with a boomerang, but it was obviously Tarzan.

I'm definitely not frowning on improv; I mean, I've been doing it for years. I just think that there's some styles of comedy that warrant a tighter pace.

There are lot of people I'd wanna work with, but Wes Anderson, I would just wanna sit down with the guy. If he would ever put me in one of his movies, that would be the end.

I like my flight sims because I can set up a very robust joystick setup and my head tracking software.

I think it's pretty silly that people wear boxers. You're wearing shorts under your pants. They're shorts.

Everybody in comedy has something like that happen to them: They bomb, or no one shows up. You're like, 'Hey, I'm funny, trust me!' And the world collectively goes, 'Yeah, you and everybody else.'

I'm not joking - it's a top-three dream of mine to be on a comedy on HBO and to have it directed by Mike Judge and Alec Berg, and then on top of that, have it be with friends, two of them I've known for 10 years.

Game design has always been a secondary passion. I don't know how to program, though, so I'm at this strange crossroads where I'm like, 'I wonder if I can convince people who know what they're doing to hear me out on one of my ideas.'

I am an unabashed HBO fan. This is why being on 'Silicon Valley' is kind of like a dream.

I'm a Windows guy. I have been for many, many years. I play games, and it's where games run, baby.

I don't program, so I don't belong in Silicon Valley. If I did belong in Silicon Valley, I'd be there creating a revolutionary compression algorithm for billions of dollars.

I still like farts. I still think farts are some of the funniest things.

I like a nice, crisp pilsner or lager.

Married life is the same as dating life, except now you have a ring, and the state of California has a vested financial interest in the outcome of your marriage.

I'm into computers and have been for a while.

I was just a bit of a loner as a young boy. And very, very sensitive. Ever the emotional young thing.

I grew up in a hippy town, so I did my playing outdoors and skiing and all that, but then I also had my nerd friends that I went and hosted LAN parties with, get my 'Counter-Strike' on.

In order to put it into perspective, as an actor, it's super hard to get on a TV show. If you get on one, it's super hard for that show to be reasonably successful. All of that, on paper, seems pretty special. It's the sum of the parts, really. To roll the dice and come up with this particular show is pretty fortunate. I'm very happy about Silicon Valley series. It's changed everything for me.

I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what Silicon Valley has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.