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" 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. "

T. J. Miller

Remember

Meaning

Trying

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" I think it is very important to be a method actor. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Hosting is a thankless job. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.' "

" We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'. "

" 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. "

" It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

T. J. Miller

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

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

T. J. Miller

I Am

Stand

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "