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" I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs. "
T. J. Miller
People
Concerts
Hip-Hop
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" 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. "
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" '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. "
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" 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. "
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Writing
Own
Music
" People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars. "
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Life
Dream
Speech
" We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'. "
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Positive
Optimism
Valley
" Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation. "
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You
Through
" 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. "
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Working
Better
Change
" I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally. "
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Know
Act
Comedy
" I love Denver. "
T. J. Miller
Love
I Love
Denver
" 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. "
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Myself
Having Fun
Yourself
" 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. "
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Follow
Know
Way
" 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. "
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Learn
Performance
Movies
" Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic. "
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Life
Hard
Kind
" It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway. "
T. J. Miller
Morning
Funny
Crazy
" 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. "
T. J. Miller
Appreciation
Think
Know
" There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective. "
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World
Seriously
Place
" It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity. "
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Authenticity
Someone
Good
" I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant. "
T. J. Miller
Stand
Relevant
Before
" 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. "
T. J. Miller
Work
People
Famous
" 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. "
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Important
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" It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be! "
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Idea
Going
Fun
" I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life. "
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Escape
Tragedy
People
" I think it is very important to be a method actor. "
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Method
I Think
Important
" 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. "
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Own
Myself
Me
" I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. "
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Stories
Absurdity
Hardest
" Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful. "
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You
Euphoria
Everything
" 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. "
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Done
Bad
People
" 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.' "
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Be Happy
Good
Happy
" 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. "
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" Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am. "
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I Am
Stand
Up