Ben Miller Quotes
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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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Children basically need one thing: to be played with.
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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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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'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
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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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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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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'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
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More than anything, I enjoy making people laugh.
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Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
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Oh, I assure you, science is anything but boring.
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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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I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.
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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'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.