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" 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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" 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

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" People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars. "

" You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it. "

" 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 love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something. "

" To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write. "

" Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation. "

" 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. "

" Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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" I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon. "

" I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering. "

" Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it. "

T. J. Miller

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

T. J. Miller

Debut

" 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. "