Ben Miller Quotes

I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.

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• It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

  

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• If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

  

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• The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

  

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• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  

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• But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

  

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• Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

  

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• I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.

  

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• It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.

  

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• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

  

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• People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

  

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• People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.

  

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• I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.

  

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• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  

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• I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.

  

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• I loved the writing process. I loved it.

  

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• Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it's all about cloud computing, and we're still cloud computing. And then we went through this space on social. When Facebook came out, that was amazing.

  

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• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

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• I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

  

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• There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.

  

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• I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Play
  • Comedy
  • Realism