Ben Miller Quotes

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Ben Miller

Profession : Comedian

Birth : February 24, 1966

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 work out in the Caribbean for half the year, playing a detective who's really into science. Anybody who knows me will tell you that's a dream come true. But it's tough for my family. We only get to see each other every two and a half to three weeks.

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That was one of the amazing things about Doctor Who. Considering it is such an enormous charabanc, a centerpiece of international TV, it feels incredibly small when you are actually involved in it. It is very intimate, very small; it feels like a few people messing about with a camera.

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I have always played a slightly ineffectual, bumbly, nice guy.

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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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One of the saddest things I've ever done is download 'I'm A Teenage Dirtbag' by Wheatus and play along with it with my headphones on. Oh, God. If you were to walk in and see me do that, you would really worry for me.

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My kids are blissfully unaware of anything I do. I asked my four-year-old, Harrison, what I did, and he said, 'You're an electrician.' He must have seen me changing a lightbulb.

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We all know to eat green vegetables and oily fish, but who does that? I'll have a cake, thanks.

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I think poshness is very funny! But I think it's also delightful. There's something wonderful and very innocent about it, particularly with the Edwardians.

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It's great to do stuff that 'gets you out of the house' in a way - that gets you to meet other people!

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You need to take a little break sometimes. Then, hopefully, you get some more lead in your pencil, and you're raring to go again!

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I used to go badger-watching as a boy, and it's brilliant fun - they're incredibly active animals, and the cubs are very funny to watch.

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Our annual school physics trip was always to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, as it's such a good example of Newtonian physics. You can learn about centrifugal force and Newton's first law from the roller coasters, and the Viking long boat is a giant pendulum. It's good for children to understand that science underpins all these brilliant things.

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I once played a character called Mr. Jonathan in something called 'Razzle Dazzle.' I was a choreographer of children's pageants. That was something I never imagined doing. It did great in Australia.

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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 a have-a-go dad. I like babies.

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I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.

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I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.

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I don't think you get a lot of comedians who are homeopaths. Comedy is essentially about not being hoodwinked.

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I did play a romantic part once - Orsino in 'Twelfth Night.'

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