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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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.
I think it is very important to be a method actor.
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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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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 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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It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway.
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
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I'm having a difficult time killing my parents
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Yogi Bear changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples' lives for the better.
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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 laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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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.