T. J. Miller Quotes

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T. J. Miller

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 4, 1981

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 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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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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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.

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

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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

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

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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 and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.

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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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I think it is very important to be a method actor.

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