Ben Miller Quotes
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Children basically need one thing: to be played with.
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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.
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I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.
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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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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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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'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
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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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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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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'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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Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
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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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Bob Dylan - I will listen to any of his songs over and over.
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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?