Top 39 T. J. Miller Quotes
#1. My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.
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#2. The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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#3. It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!
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#4. When it's all you, you can't blame a bear. You gotta bear the burden yourself.
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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#8. If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples' lives for the better.
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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. GOOD THINGS DO COME IN BEARS!! ... is how I climax.
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#12. I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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#13. 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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#14. 'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' - there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.
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#15. Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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#16. 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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#17. I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.
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#18. Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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#19. There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.
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#20. I'm having a difficult time killing my parents
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#21. 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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#22. My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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#23. If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.
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#24. I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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#25. They ask me what the biggest thing I have going on right now is, and I usually say, "I think this interview?" And then they don't get that it's a joke. So then I say, Yogi Bear 3D. That's my default.
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#26. I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 - the area code, not the band - Mile High, until I die. I'm 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don't glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep.
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#27. I think it is very important to be a method actor.
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#28. 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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#29. I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs.
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#30. I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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#31. To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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#32. It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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#33. 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, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.
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#34. Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
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#35. 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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#36. Yogi Bear was a real moment in my life. Post-Yogi Bear: don't drink as much. Pre-Yogi Bear: like to drink much.
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#38. I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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