T. J. Miller Quotes

Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.

I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

Stand-up is hard.

I love standup and I haven't given it up.

Oh, I love stand-up.

I've never had a Plan B. I've just always wanted to make people laugh, that's it.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.

I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.

Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.