T. J. Miller Quotes
Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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A role needs a certain tone, so your own tone also changes. It's not like I lock myself up in a room to get into the zone. It is based on what I am feeling, because the minute you try too much, weird things happen. Of course, for an intense role you need some silence, and you need to do a lot of thinking.
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My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
