A biography for Ben Millerhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.”
“It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.”
“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.”
“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!”
“My kids are blissfully unaware of anything I do. I asked my four-year-old, Harrison, what I did, and he said, 'You're an electrician.' He must have seen me changing a lightbulb.”
“All men in their 40s want to be in rock bands, and I reserve the right to be in a pub band at some point.”
“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 took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for his own 'inventions.'”
“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've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.”
“My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his work, our family did several house swaps with L.A. families. It was a dreadfully daring thing to do in the early 1980s; there was no Internet, so you had no idea of what you were getting into.”
“Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.”
“I did play a romantic part once - Orsino in 'Twelfth Night.'”
“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?”
“Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.”
“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.”
“Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.”
“The first-ever job I had was in a play, 'Trench Kiss,' with Caroline Quentin and Arthur Smith.”
“I'm a have-a-go dad. I like babies.”