Quotes from 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.

I don't know that I would host the Golden Globes or the Emmys because I don't think they have the appreciation for irreverence that the Critics Choice does.

I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

'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.

It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity.

I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

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

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

I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.

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 have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.

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.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

When you spend such a large portion of your life working - and it's not fun, and you're worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party - then what has work done to America? That's the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party.

Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.

I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

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.

Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.

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

'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.

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.

If you're a comedian, you can change peoples lives for the better in much smaller increments - not their entire life, but for 15 minutes or a half hour.

I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.

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