Ben Miller Quotes
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Children basically need one thing: to be played with.
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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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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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More than anything, I enjoy making people laugh.
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I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
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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 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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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 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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Much as I respect Russell Brand's point of view, I'm in the opposite camp to him about voting. I think it's enormously important to engage with the electoral process.
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Definitely the most important thing in my life is being a father.
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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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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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I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.
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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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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 live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.
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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.
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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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Things like 'The Office,' and arguably shows like 'The Only Way Is Essex,' are comedies, just using real people in real situations.
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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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Bob Dylan - I will listen to any of his songs over and over.