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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It's great to do stuff that 'gets you out of the house' in a way - that gets you to meet other people!
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Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.
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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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As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.
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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 enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.
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I'm obsessed with coffee.
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I don't think you get a lot of comedians who are homeopaths. Comedy is essentially about not being hoodwinked.
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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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Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.
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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've turned down all sorts of good things accidentally, too. I read the script for 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' and thought, 'This makes no sense.' Then I went to the cinema to see it. Well, what an idiot.
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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 studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.
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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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People think I'm Rob Brydon a lot.
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Children basically need one thing: to be played with.
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I'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.
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I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
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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?
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I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.
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I'd probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they've never been exposed to real life.