T. J. Miller Quotes

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

I love Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, and Hans Teeuwen, and I'm trying to synthesise elements of theatre into my show a little bit more.

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.