T. J. Miller Quotes
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I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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I don't get along much with myself.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
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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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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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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.
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Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
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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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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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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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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.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Sometimes, things need to be so understated on film that I don't even see them as funny, which isn't my favorite style, comedically. When I watch film comedy, I like people that are a little bit more alive on the screen and wound up. I like volatility and unpredictability and other long words like those.
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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.