Thomas Middleditch (Thomas Steven Middleditch) Quotes
T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
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I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.
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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
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I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
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I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.
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Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.
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It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.
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I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know?
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It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.
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Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.
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Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.
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I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.
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I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.
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I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.
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In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.
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I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.
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Every role that I have taken on has demanded some kind of emotional range. I really, really would love to do a comedy, but that opportunity really hasn't opened up.
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I think it might be interesting to give an Emmy to an outstanding background performance in either a comedy or drama series.
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Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go.
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The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.
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T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.
