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I have always played a slightly ineffectual, bumbly, nice guy.
Ben Miller
Nice
Slightly
Guy
Always
Nice Guy
Played
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?
Ben Miller
Physics
School
Year
Only
School Plays
Bands
Person
Anything
Acting
Cool
Thing
Second
Started
Plays
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.
Ben Miller
Men
Band
Some
Point
Rock
Rock Bands
Bands
Want
Pub
Reserve
Right
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.
Ben Miller
God
Me
You
Walk
Teenage
Worry
Would
See
Saddest
Headphones
Along
Were
Done
Oh
Oh God
Really
Download
Ever
Play
Things
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.
Ben Miller
Me
You
Seen
Changing
Kids
Must
Unaware
He
Said
Blissfully
Did
Anything
Asked
Electrician
It's great to do stuff that 'gets you out of the house' in a way - that gets you to meet other people!
Ben Miller
Great
You
People
Other
Meet
Way
Out
Stuff
House
Gets
I once played a character called Mr. Jonathan in something called 'Razzle Dazzle.' I was a choreographer of children's pageants. That was something I never imagined doing. It did great in Australia.
Ben Miller
Great
Character
Once
Something
Never
Jonathan
Doing
Australia
Did
Children
Choreographer
Played
Imagined
Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
Ben Miller
Writing
Like
Doing
Much
Acting
Things
Presenting
I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.
Ben Miller
Work
Myself
Think
Focused
Obsessive
Like
Across
As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.
Ben Miller
Good
Try
New Things
Think
New
Actor
Things
As a committed Whovian, I cannot believe my luck in joining the Twelfth Doctor for one of his inaugural adventures. My only worry is that they'll make me leave the set when I'm not filming.
Ben Miller
Me
Doctor
Luck
Believe
Worry
Only
Joining
Adventures
Make
Leave
His
Committed
Cannot
Twelfth
Filming
Set
Oh, I assure you, science is anything but boring.
Ben Miller
You
Science
Assure
Boring
Oh
Anything
Science was always a passion, but I also loved 'Monty Python' and 'The Young Ones,' and I discovered the Footlights comedy club at university, where a lot of those people got their start. I had a go and loved it immediately. After that, I just couldn't stop writing sketches, and it all took off from there.
Ben Miller
Science
People
Writing
Comedy
Passion
Young
Club
Took
Monty
Monty Python
Immediately
Those
Had
Python
Also
Comedy Club
Always
Got
Go
Discovered
Lot
Off
Just
Stop
Where
After
Loved
Sketches
Start
University
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.
Ben Miller
Beautiful
Family
Year
Too
Caribbean
Months
Surroundings
Six
Just
Being
Hard
Even
Away
People think I'm Rob Brydon a lot.
Ben Miller
People
Think
Rob
Lot
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.
Ben Miller
Death
Character
You
Yourself
Drop
Stage
Live
Way
Bit
TV
Reveal
Audience
Hint
Go
Off
Going
Behind
Script
Each
Played
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.
Ben Miller
Jokes
People
Thought
Healthy
Think
Carefully
About
Disabilities
He
Because
Doing
Healthy Thing
His
Yes
Very
Targets
Really
Ricky
Chosen
Thing
I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
Ben Miller
Moralistic
Very
Optimistic
Afraid
For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.
Ben Miller
Life
Work
Art
Me
Live
Unless
One Of The Things
Examine
How
Doing
Your
Things
I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
Ben Stiller
Humiliation
Characters
Willing
Always
Behalf
Endure
I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.
Ben Stiller
Funny
Hope
You
Think
About
Over
Know
How
Making
Go
Going
Movie
Anything
Anywhere
Translate
I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.
Ben Stiller
Work
Creative
Enjoy
Valid
Ability
Comedies
Test
Your
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
Ben Stiller
Comedy
Way
Had
Along
Make
Doing
Up
Grew
Wanting
Movies
Suddenly
Found
Career
I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
Ben Stiller
Work
Best
Nervous
Wind
Energy
Unless
Way
Best Way
Postman
Something
Lot
Up
Want
Productive
Gardener
I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.
Ben Stiller
Feeling
Big
Kid
Tried
He
Because
Doing
Big Fan
His
Michael
Get
Just
Movie
Wanted
Fan
Paul
Episodes
Reason
Watched
I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
Ben Stiller
Face
Politicians
Think
Could
Take
Most
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