105 Quotes by Ben Miller

I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.

My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.

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.

For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.

My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny Cash thing that trying to live a good life and be a good person are not necessarily the same thing!

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.

I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.

Children basically need one thing: to be played with.

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?