T. J. Miller Quotes & Sayings

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. — T. J. Miller

Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am. — T. J. Miller

I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me. — T. J. Miller

Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs. — T. J. Miller

If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence. — T. J. Miller

I'm having a difficult time killing my parents — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

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

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. — T. J. Miller

It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be! — T. J. Miller

GOOD THINGS DO COME IN BEARS!! ... is how I climax. — T. J. Miller

You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it. — T. J. Miller

I have perfectly symmetrical ankles. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples' lives for the better. — T. J. Miller

I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

When it's all you, you can't blame a bear. You gotta bear the burden yourself. — T. J. Miller

I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles. — T. J. Miller

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.' — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller

I think it is very important to be a method actor. — T. J. Miller

'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. — T. J. Miller

Yogi Bear was a real moment in my life. Post-Yogi Bear: don't drink as much. Pre-Yogi Bear: like to drink much. — T. J. Miller

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. — T. J. Miller