Ben Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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On 'Death In Paradise,' I had a CGI pet lizard and had to react to nothing, which was hideously embarrassing.
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I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy friends over the years.
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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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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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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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'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 rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.
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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'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
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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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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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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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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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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
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Children basically need one thing: to be played with.
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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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People think I'm Rob Brydon a lot.
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Science was always a passion, but I also loved 'Monty Python' and 'The Young Ones,' and I discovered the Footlights comedy club at university, where a lot of those people got their start. I had a go and loved it immediately. After that, I just couldn't stop writing sketches, and it all took off from there.