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" I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something. "
T. J. Miller
Enough
Work
Crazy
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" 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
" 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. "
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Me
American
Summer
" 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. "
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Rather
Care
Laugh
" 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 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. "
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Respect
Children
You
" I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon. "
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Time
Man
Pretty
" J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche. "
T. J. Miller
Kind
He
Morgan
" 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. "
T. J. Miller
Car
Look
Body
" 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. "
T. J. Miller
Nature
You
Respect
" To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write. "
T. J. Miller
Myself
Write
Never
" 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. "
T. J. Miller
Own
Myself
Me
" My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence. "
T. J. Miller
Grooming
Face
Confidence
" Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation. "
T. J. Miller
Different
You
Through
" 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
" 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. "
T. J. Miller
You
Things
Back
" I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living. "
T. J. Miller
Nice
Think
Moral
" You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it. "
T. J. Miller
Hard
Just
Want
" I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'. "
T. J. Miller
Sound
Yellow
Singing
" 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
" I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally. "
T. J. Miller
Know
Act
Comedy
" 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
" Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic. "
T. J. Miller
Life
Hard
Kind
" I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism. "
T. J. Miller
Always
Me
Like
" I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles. "
T. J. Miller
Noodles
Amount
Drink
" I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it. "
T. J. Miller
I Feel Like
Feel
Like
" My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work. "
T. J. Miller
Face
Work
Radio
" I love Denver. "
T. J. Miller
Love
I Love
Denver
" We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed. "
T. J. Miller
Broken
Anything
Fixed
" There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective. "
T. J. Miller
World
Seriously
Place
" I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant. "
T. J. Miller
Stand
Relevant
Before