Ben Miller Quotes
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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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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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I have always played a slightly ineffectual, bumbly, nice guy.
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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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Children basically need one thing: to be played with.
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More than anything, I enjoy making people laugh.
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Definitely the most important thing in my life is being a father.
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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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Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.
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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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Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
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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've been going bald since I was about 17. I'm still hanging on to my hair for dear life, but I do sometimes wonder - should I get a wig?
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Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.
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Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
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My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate the thing they find most frightening.
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Oh, I assure you, science is anything but boring.
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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'm not afraid to say it - I'm proud to be from a nation that wears its heart on its sleeve and isn't scared to show its feelings.
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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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Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
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I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.
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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.