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. Ben Miller Read Quote
You meet every different kind of possible person from different ethnic and cultural background, and after you while, you realise it’s all just people, isn’t it? Ben Miller Read Quote
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. Ben Miller Read Quote
Initially, the best thing about being in L.A. was the girls – they loved me. It was like being a pop star. Ben Miller Read Quote
I go back to L.A. as often as I can, and even if I’m there on business, I always add on a few extra days for pleasure. Ben Miller Read Quote
L.A.’s hippies are actually quite scary – more like Hell’s Angels than the Haight-Ashbury hippies of San Francisco. Ben Miller Read Quote
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. Ben Miller Read Quote
I adored ‘Drop the Dead Donkey.’ That show defined Channel 4 at the time; it was so inventive and off the leash. Ben Miller Read Quote
