T. J. Miller
T. J. Miller
Todd Joseph "T. J." Milleris an American actor, voice actor, comedian and director. He currently stars as Erlich Bachman in the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley. Miller has also performed in such films as Cloverfield, Yogi Bear, How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Big Hero 6and Deadpool...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth4 July 1981
CountryUnited States of America
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Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.
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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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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 drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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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.
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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.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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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 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.
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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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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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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.'