Quotes by Ben Miller

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.

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.

Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.

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

I'm obsessed with coffee.

I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.

Everything in politics is so stage-managed.

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.

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

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.