Ben Miller

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

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

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

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

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

“I'm very lucky, I had a very amicable separation and very amicable divorce, but it was still horrendous.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Nobody wants to get divorced.”

“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.”

“I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.”

“On 'Death In Paradise,' I had a CGI pet lizard and had to react to nothing, which was hideously embarrassing.”

“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.”

“Every meal is so important and colours the rest of your day - my whole day can go into a spin if I make the wrong choice at lunchtime!”

“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.”

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

“Personally, I think people need to get over this 'being offended' thing. Being offended does not give you the right to silence people. I get offended by things all the time - it's just part of life. The right not to be offended is not a human right, especially in a democracy.”

“I've been going bald since I was about 17. I'm still hanging on to my hair for dear life, but I do sometimes wonder - should I get a wig?”