Ben Miller Quotes
You meet every different kind of possible person from different ethnic and cultural background, and after you while, you realise it's all just people, isn't it?
Quotes to Explore
-
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
-
There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
-
Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
-
I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
-
I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
-
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
-
It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
-
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
-
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
-
Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
-
I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
-
I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
-
I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
-
There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. And while to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
-
Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I’ve been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I’m doing now.
-
The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn't get off to a blazing start, I'm on the bench. Now, I've proven myself, so it's not essential that I get off to a real good start.
-
I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.
-
I've got plenty of advice from a number of other actors. Me? I don't give advice.
-
I suppose the cult of the strong woman character on TV has probably been misinterpreted in so many different ways, meaning that a woman can't be emotionally complicated or want things or can't be weak in moments.
-
Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
-
We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.
-
I don't happen to believe, by the way, that immigration policies that single people out because of religion, for instance, are fair and just.
-
You meet every different kind of possible person from different ethnic and cultural background, and after you while, you realise it's all just people, isn't it?
