I don't want to make some super cliche comment about how much more acceptable gaming is. I think it was always acceptable for me and my peers. But I think it's become more so in pop culture, media, stuff like that - people with money have discovered that they can make money by marketing to us.

Thomas Middleditch

I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons.

I understand what scripting and programming is, but do I know how to do it? Not really. But, I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what 'Silicon Valley' has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

Thomas Middleditch

War Respect Men

I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.

Thomas Middleditch

Art Wit Use

I think it's pretty silly that people wear boxers. You're wearing shorts under your pants. They're shorts.

Thomas Middleditch

Your You Wearing

I like a nice, crisp pilsner or lager.

Thomas Middleditch

Age Nice Nic

Married life is the same as dating life, except now you have a ring, and the state of California has a vested financial interest in the outcome of your marriage.

Thomas Middleditch

Marriage Life Age

In D&D, you're only in that fantasy world. But with GURPS, you can, like, play a game that's Los Angeles film noir, or a game where the premise is you are world-jumpers, and you can go to different worlds.

Thomas Middleditch

You Worlds World

I had to be sick for a scene in the first season, and we used some fruit smoothies with little banana chunks. I had to put it in my mouth and spit it out. It was absolutely delicious.

Thomas Middleditch

Wit Used Use

I was just a bit of a loner as a young boy. And very, very sensitive. Ever the emotional young thing.

Thomas Middleditch

Young You Very

There are lot of people I'd wanna work with, but Wes Anderson, I would just wanna sit down with the guy. If he would ever put me in one of his movies, that would be the end.

Thomas Middleditch

Work Movies Would

I'm a military history buff.

Thomas Middleditch

History Tory T

I went from being the shy weirdo to the class clown in a couple of years.

Thomas Middleditch

Years Year Weirdo

I wasn't necessarily always funny, I don't know if I necessarily am - some would argue not - but I was definitely, always been a strange one. Definitely always an odd duck.

Thomas Middleditch

Funny Would Ways

In any awards ceremony, if you're a finicky person like myself, you can pick a multitude of things to nag about. I get frustrated with the comedy category because it feels like it gets sidelined a lot of the time for all kinds of things - not sidelined, marginalized.

Thomas Middleditch

War Time You

Over the years, I've had a slight ebbing and flowing of confidence in my non-comedic role abilities.

Thomas Middleditch

Years Year Wing

I make very basic country rustic furniture.

Thomas Middleditch

Very Us UN

I'm cool as a cucumber, baby.

Thomas Middleditch

Cool Cucumber Baby

I want to work with Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers, or Spike Jonze.

Thomas Middleditch

Work Wit Want

Sometimes, when comedians get success, they don't do as much weird stuff as they normally do.

Thomas Middleditch

Time Success Weird

Part of me wants a bunch of jocks to go to Comic-Con and call them all dweebs so they can be like, 'Pump the brakes a little bit.' But that said, it's all positive. It's just, of course, I'm going to find some cynicism in it.

Thomas Middleditch

Positive Art Wants

As a kid, I drew comics. I had curly hair. I liked to joke, but I was kind of nervous about it at first until it was coaxed out of me.

Thomas Middleditch

I was a little bit of a tech lord. Not a lord. More of a duke or a nobleman. I was into that stuff as a kid. Nothing too crazy.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm always trying to do weird things - when you have that part of your mission statement as an actor, half of that stuff that ends up being made is probably garbage.

Thomas Middleditch

I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program.

Thomas Middleditch

Both the benefit and the terrifying aspect of standup is when it's going poorly, you've only yourself to blame. There's no one to bail you out. But when it's going great, all that approval is for you.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm a bit of a curmudgeon. I don't like Valentine's Day and New Year's and Halloween.

Thomas Middleditch

When you're an actor who just got his first big chunk of change, and you're like, 'What do I do with it?' you try to look at Silicon Valley, and the learning curve is so huge. Especially on the investor side. I don't want to say it's like Vegas, in a sense, but you do kinda roll the dice on some companies. It's like educated dice rolling.

Thomas Middleditch

After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first went to Chicago and learned long-form improv, that was a far better acting workshop than any acting school I've been to.

Thomas Middleditch

I don't want to make some super cliche comment about how much more acceptable gaming is. I think it was always acceptable for me and my peers. But I think it's become more so in pop culture, media, stuff like that - people with money have discovered that they can make money by marketing to us.

Thomas Middleditch

Improv is always seen as something that's funny, but worth a $5 ticket, $10 at most. I think ISC is one of those shows that is worth a real ticket price. It's hard-hitting and great and different every time.

Thomas Middleditch

The Valley is a place that takes itself too seriously, and it has yet to be properly lampooned. So it's time for a wedgie.

Thomas Middleditch

With YouTube streaming and Twitch and all that, you can just hop on on any given night and play videogames and have people come watch you. And even if you've only got 400 people watching your stream, that's more people than would see my comedy if I went to UCB.

Thomas Middleditch

We thought it would be pretty cool to officially declare ourselves a gang. Our gang name was called the Rude Boys. Of course, any Rude Gang would need a jacket.

Thomas Middleditch

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

Thomas Middleditch

I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote.

Thomas Middleditch

Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.

Thomas Middleditch

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

Thomas Middleditch

Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

Thomas Middleditch

You get a lot of apps and companies that are trying to sell you on something that's totally useless or potentially unhealthy. Only occasionally does something really worthwhile really come out.

Thomas Middleditch

Speaking as someone who's played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture.

Thomas Middleditch

I wanted to be like 'Kids in the Hall.'

Thomas Middleditch

I just grew up liking computers and stuff like that. Mainly cool stuff, like video games.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm not in Hollywood because I'm good at math.

Thomas Middleditch

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm more nerdy in a sense of, like, video games and Dungeons and Dragons and Renaissance Faire. But not nerdy in a sense that I know how to create apps.

Thomas Middleditch

There's all these little bubbles of nerddom.

Thomas Middleditch

I grew up on '80s action movies... Jean Claude Van Damme, Schwarzenegger, Stallone... If there were ever some opportunity to do that, it'd be great.

Thomas Middleditch

I have a fairly pragmatic view on all those bullies that came before, because everybody makes you who you are now.

Thomas Middleditch

I got into performing fairly young and went from, like, a shy kid to a total weirdo.

Thomas Middleditch