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All Quotes by author - T. J. Miller

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Hosting is a thankless job. "

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

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 have perfectly symmetrical ankles. "

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

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