T. J. Miller Quotes
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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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.
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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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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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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 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.
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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.
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Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
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Hosting is a thankless job.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
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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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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I love Denver.
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I think it is very important to be a method actor.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.
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Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.