Ben Miller Quotes
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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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On 'Death In Paradise,' I had a CGI pet lizard and had to react to nothing, which was hideously embarrassing.
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My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.
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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'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.
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There are practical things which contribute to a joke's funniness. People will find a joke funnier if they are sitting closer together, if it's cold, if they've paid and if they are told it's funny beforehand.
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'Death In Paradise' is my dream job - a fascinating character, great scripts, superb cast, and shooting in the Caribbean with French catering.
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I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.
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I have always played a slightly ineffectual, bumbly, nice guy.
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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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I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.
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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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I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.
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There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.
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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 don't think you get a lot of comedians who are homeopaths. Comedy is essentially about not being hoodwinked.
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I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.
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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.
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I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.
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Children basically need one thing: to be played with.
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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
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I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
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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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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.