Ben Miller Quotes
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I used to go badger-watching as a boy, and it's brilliant fun - they're incredibly active animals, and the cubs are very funny to watch.
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Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.
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People think I'm Rob Brydon a lot.
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You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's death. Each character has to be ruthlessly, faultlessly played. But live, you can hint at what's going on behind. You can let the audience in a bit and go off the script.
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I enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.
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I adored 'Drop the Dead Donkey.' That show defined Channel 4 at the time; it was so inventive and off the leash.
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It was only in the second year of my Ph.D. that I started acting. I wasn't in school plays or anything; I was in bands, but I wasn't cool. There's no such thing as a cool physics person, is there?
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I'm obsessed with coffee.
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As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.
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We all know to eat green vegetables and oily fish, but who does that? I'll have a cake, thanks.
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I studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.
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I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.
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I'm not a 'suffer in silence' type; I'm a 'let's throw money at the problem' type - I've done reflexology, reiki, psychotherapy, counselling. I've never actually had analysis, but I'd like to try that sometime.
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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
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You need to take a little break sometimes. Then, hopefully, you get some more lead in your pencil, and you're raring to go again!
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I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.
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I'd like to have a neck. Everyone else has a neck, but I never got one; I don't know what happened. I'm not asking for much: just some sort of separation between my head and my body would be great.
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All men in their 40s want to be in rock bands, and I reserve the right to be in a pub band at some point.
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I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
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I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.
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I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for his own 'inventions.'
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I want to get across that science is something that we all have ownership of and we can all take an interest in. We don't all have to understand complex theories, but we should have a working knowledge, like knowing your way round the engine of your car.
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I'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.
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I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.