Ben Miller Quotes

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Ben Miller

Profession : Comedian

Birth : February 24, 1966

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'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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This is a shameful thing to say, but I've never really got that 'grown-up' mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?

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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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For my mother, everything stands in relation to her Welshness; the fact she married an Englishman seems to be something of an issue. She's kind of anti-English... anti-imperialist.

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I very much wanted the perfect nuclear family, and I came from the perfect nuclear family, but like so many people, that isn't the way things have worked out.

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Children basically need one thing: to be played with.

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I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic 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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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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My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his work, our family did several house swaps with L.A. families. It was a dreadfully daring thing to do in the early 1980s; there was no Internet, so you had no idea of what you were getting into.

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Initially, the best thing about being in L.A. was the girls - they loved me. It was like being a pop star.

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I go back to L.A. as often as I can, and even if I'm there on business, I always add on a few extra days for pleasure.

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L.A.'s hippies are actually quite scary - more like Hell's Angels than the Haight-Ashbury hippies of San Francisco.

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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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Everything in politics is so stage-managed.

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I adored 'Drop the Dead Donkey.' That show defined Channel 4 at the time; it was so inventive and off the leash.

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I'm obsessed with coffee.

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Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.

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