105 Quotes by Ben Miller

Actually I don't mind the gym when I get there, but I hate the psychological battle I have to go through to get there.

Bob Dylan - I will listen to any of his songs over and over.

You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's death. Each character has to be ruthlessly, faultlessly played. But live, you can hint at what's going on behind. You can let the audience in a bit and go off the script.

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.

I'm prepared to try to talk to a very beautiful girl. I learned a fantastic secret, which is that the most beautiful woman in the room is not being spoken to because she's too intimidating. They're not looking for somebody beautiful; they're looking for somebody to amuse them.

I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.

It's the classic thing - children's TV gets watched by everybody, not just children. 'Horrible Histories' is the sort of thing everyone watches.

Ricky Gervais has jokes about people with disabilities, but do I think that's a healthy thing? Yes, I really do, because he's chosen his targets very carefully, and he's thought about what he's doing.

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