Ben Miller Quotes

I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.

I'd love to do comedy. I'd probably have to get my laughing fits in check, because generally if I've done comedy, I'm usually the straight character that plays against the very obviously funny character, so that's really hard when the person is really hilarious.

There was a time when doing "Zoolander 2" that I was literally flying between the "Zoolander" shoot and "The Leftovers" in Texas and at that point, I was getting comedy whiplash. It was a relief, though, to get to Rome and be like, "Oh my God, I get to laugh on set."

I'm looking for parts that will challenge me comedically. I would love to be on a multicam sitcom one day, kind of like Friends. I love making people laugh and would like to continue to do so!

I've always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can't just be funny. You do have to work at it, and you have to try to know what your role is and when you can insert humor, or when it's best not to.

Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.

I think I found it difficult though to keep a straight face when we were actually working and I wasn't supposed to be laughing.

They never let Rider [Strong] and I do scenes together because we would look at each other and start laughing.

I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.

I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.

I don't take myself too seriously. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy making people laugh.

There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.

I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.

I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough. The ones that can do it, I tip my hat off to them, but I don't have that kind of humor or mind.

I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in these little bombshell lines that would get me some attention and a laugh without really helping the scene.

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.

The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.

No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.

People basically aren't that racist. They want their laughs. If I make a white guy laugh, he's gonna come see me. He's not gonna go see the white guy who doesn't make him laugh just because that guy is white.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.