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" 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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" 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

" I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs. "

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

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

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

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I Am

Stand

" 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

" 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. "

" There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me. "

T. J. Miller

Cool

Dangerous

" Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested. "

" There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche. "

T. J. Miller

Kind

Morgan

" Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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

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

T. J. Miller

Debut

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

" 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. "

" '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

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

T. J. Miller

Sit

Write

" 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. "

" 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. "