Top 60 T. J. Miller Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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 think it is very important to be a method actor.

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.

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 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.

Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.

I’m not, like, an action-hero guy.

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.

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.

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

I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I don’t get along much with myself.

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

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

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

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

‘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.

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

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 have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

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.

I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.