T. J. Miller Quotes

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.

T. J. Miller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 4, 1981

Topics

LaughYouSketchIntimacyContact

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

Jimmy Chin

GreatDeathRisksMePersonDecide

My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.

Jesse Eisenberg

PreparationPeopleFeelHelpYou

I love nonfiction the most. It's hard to find a good nonfiction story, and that's why I'm not as prolific, I guess, as a lot of people. They're hard to find. I love the nonfiction writer Ben Macintyre. I think he's terrific at the form of telling a story in a cinematic way.

Robert Kurson

LoveGoodPeopleStoryThinkFind

Art fairs are a lot like professional proms - you make contacts, have a lot to look at, and in some cases, you make friends forever. I think that for artists, they can be a bit controversial: they stimulate curiosity, but at the same time, you're always trying to not have your work hung on a wall.

Maurizio Cattelan

WorkTimeArtCuriosityThinkLook

A friend of mine once, when I was 11 years old, mentioned that there was a youth theater, a local amateur youth theater nearby where young people could go every Sunday. And that's where it began, really.

Aneurin Barnard

FriendPeopleYouthSundayGoYoung

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

PastFictionIn The PastHistorical

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

Rodman Philbrick

GoodSportsCoolWritingWinning

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Mary Wollstonecraft

GoodEvilPoliticalProductiveMust

What's funny isn't really me. What I do is point out what I find funny in others.

Michael Pena

FunnyMeFindOthersOutPoint

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

MyselfTableSituationWantPlaying

Holiness through Christ's Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards.

Monica Johnson

AccountabilityChristianStriving

I go by my instincts. It's whatever I feel in the scene in the moment.

Millie Bobby Brown

MomentFeelGoWhateverInstincts

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