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" 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
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" I have perfectly symmetrical ankles. "
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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 don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally. "
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" I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. "
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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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" Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut. "
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" 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. "
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" I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it. "
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" I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff. "
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Sense
" I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me. "
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About
Role
Next
" Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am. "
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Stand
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" 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. "
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Car
Look
Body
" 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. "
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You
Things
Back
" 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. "
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Nothing
Award
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" 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. "
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Nature
You
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" 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
" J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche. "
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Kind
He
Morgan
" I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'. "
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" 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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" I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts. "
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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. "
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" Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Phone
Man
" I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism. "
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" We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'. "
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