T. J. Miller Quotes

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.

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

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

I didn't become a comedian to work this hard.

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.

People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?'

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

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

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

When you're in comedy, people always come up and say, 'Oh, it must be so hard.' It really isn't hard unless you're not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.