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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! "
T. J. Miller
Idea
Going
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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. "
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Nice
Think
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" Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation. "
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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. "
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Morning
Funny
Crazy
" We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed. "
T. J. Miller
Broken
Anything
Fixed
" I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs. "
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People
Concerts
Hip-Hop
" It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity. "
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Authenticity
Someone
Good
" I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things. "
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Things
People
Love
" 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.' "
T. J. Miller
Be Happy
Good
Happy
" 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
" '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
" To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write. "
T. J. Miller
Myself
Write
Never
" Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am. "
T. J. Miller
I Am
Stand
Up
" 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
" J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche. "
T. J. Miller
Kind
He
Morgan
" 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. "
T. J. Miller
Comedy
Really
Stuff
" Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering. "
T. J. Miller
Almost
Effective
Satire
" Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content. "
T. J. Miller
Me
Phone
Man
" 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 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. "
T. J. Miller
Follow
Know
Way
" Hosting is a thankless job. "
T. J. Miller
Job
Hosting
Thankless
" 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 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
Me
Cool
Dangerous
" I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism. "
T. J. Miller
Amount
Scholar
About
" I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'. "
T. J. Miller
People
Me
Hurt
" 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
" 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
" 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 don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage. "
T. J. Miller
Sit
Write
Up
" 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
" 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. "
T. J. Miller
Other
Say
Satire