Ben Miller Quotes

I'm a have-a-go dad. I like babies.

Ben Miller

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• Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Music
  • Me
  • Just

• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Fail
  • Could
  • Expense

• For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

  

  Jack Paar
  • Immigration
  • Form
  • Flattery

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Character
  • Day
  • Play

• Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • May
  • High
  • Honor

• My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Old
  • Old Days

• I love Disney. I know that some Disney stars want to break out of the Disney mold, but no, if they let me, I would work with Disney until I die.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Work
  • Want
  • Know

• Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Art
  • Journalism

• When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Compassion
  • Animals
  • Pet

• I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Man
  • Judge
  • Sure

• You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Stop
  • Organize

• The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Prevented
  • Abdicate

• I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Security

• God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he'd say, 'You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.' Finally, I did a play and he said, 'Son - you were really good.'

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • World
  • Important
  • Decision

• I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Better

• My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Dad

• I'm a have-a-go dad. I like babies.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Dad
  • Babies