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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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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Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.
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I enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.
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As a committed Whovian, I cannot believe my luck in joining the Twelfth Doctor for one of his inaugural adventures. My only worry is that they'll make me leave the set when I'm not filming.
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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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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
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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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We all know to eat green vegetables and oily fish, but who does that? I'll have a cake, thanks.
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As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.
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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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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'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
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The one thing that makes me laugh about the phrase 'the worst week of my life' is that nobody actually uses that phrase when something really bad happens.
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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 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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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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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 rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.
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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'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.