T. J. Miller

Actor

240 Quotes

I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

I don't get along much with myself.

I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

'Guardians of the Galaxy' is tongue-in-cheek and has a sense of humor about itself. But it's nothing like 'Deadpool.' 'Deadpool' is this super-bizarre thing. The best thing about it is that it's R-rated.

Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the 'Koch Brothers', you know? Don't be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like 'Leafly', which does what 'Yelp' has done, but in a much more specific way, and it's important because it's the dawn of this new era.

I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.

'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.

I don't get along much with myself.

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.

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.

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.

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.

Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.

I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

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.'

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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