Quotes from Ben Miller

People think I'm Rob Brydon a lot.

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.

I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.

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

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!

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.

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

I studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.

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.

'Death In Paradise' is my dream job - a fascinating character, great scripts, superb cast, and shooting in the Caribbean with French catering.

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?

I did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It's so bloody tedious; I'm losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.

I'm always a bit wary when people say in interviews, 'I'm at the happiest place of my life that I've ever been.' I think, 'Really? Are you?' Life is a mix, isn't it?

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

Children basically need one thing: to be played with.

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

I'm obsessed with coffee.

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

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

Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.

Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.

I get dissatisfied really easily, and I have to constantly keep moving; I have to constantly keep doing things. I find it very hard to switch off.

I'm not afraid to say it - I'm proud to be from a nation that wears its heart on its sleeve and isn't scared to show its feelings.

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