T. J. Miller Quotes

"Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I have perfectly symmetrical ankles."

"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."

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

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

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

"'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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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'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."