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" I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'. "
T. J. Miller
Sound
Yellow
Singing
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" I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism. "
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Amount
Scholar
About
" 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
" 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. "
T. J. Miller
Want
Work
You
" 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. "
T. J. Miller
Learn
Performance
Movies
" I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage. "
T. J. Miller
Sit
Write
Up
" People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars. "
T. J. Miller
Life
Dream
Speech
" '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. "
T. J. Miller
My Life
Bear
Me
" We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'. "
T. J. Miller
Positive
Optimism
Valley
" 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
" 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
" I think it is very important to be a method actor. "
T. J. Miller
Method
I Think
Important
" I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me. "
T. J. Miller
About
Role
Next
" Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering. "
T. J. Miller
Almost
Effective
Satire
" 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
" Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful. "
T. J. Miller
You
Euphoria
Everything
" 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
" 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
Me
American
Summer
" 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
" Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird. "
T. J. Miller
Look
Funny
Just
" 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. "
T. J. Miller
Human
Alcohol
Believe
" I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts. "
T. J. Miller
Actor
I Am
Prepare
" 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. "
T. J. Miller
Interesting
Kind
Live
" I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things. "
T. J. Miller
Things
People
Love
" My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence. "
T. J. Miller
Grooming
Face
Confidence
" I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. "
T. J. Miller
Stories
Absurdity
Hardest
" 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 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
" Hosting is a thankless job. "
T. J. Miller
Job
Hosting
Thankless
" It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be! "
T. J. Miller
Idea
Going
Fun
" 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. "
T. J. Miller
Respect
Children
You