Miranda Hart Quotes

English - Actress Born: December 14, 1972

I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

Sea Happy Me Sun

I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and orange dungarees. That, combined with a perfectly round pudding-bowl haircut, made me look, on a good day, like a cross between Ann Widdecombe, one of the Flower Pot Men, and a monk.

Flower Good Day Childhood

Pessimism is my default setting.

Pessimism Default Setting

If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.

Life Woman Home Shoes

Obviously I love the fans, and it's beyond lovely that people like my work, and I love saying 'Hi,' shaking a hand, doing a high five. All that's fine. But the posing for photos is so time-consuming and frankly a bit weird.

Love Work People Posing

It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.

Woman Man Real Man Real

I'm not a stereotypically beautiful woman, and I'm so happy that I'm not. I've seen those ladies - the need to be attractive at all times is ghastly. Also, in your twenties, if you are beautiful, everything comes to you, so you never need to develop a personality. I never had that problem.

Beautiful Personality Woman Happy

Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.

Time Friends Speak Difficult

No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.

Blessing Time Long Time Dream

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

Motto Youth You Your

No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.

Gold Get Parking Likes

I am essentially a middle-aged woman who likes making up weird snack combinations and galloping.

Woman I Am Weird Snack

My mum said to me once years ago, which really spurred me on, 'You're the funniest person I know'. I loved that.

Me Loved You Person

I know there are fewer women comics, and I think there'll continue to be an inherent sexism in many industries, comedy being one, just because things do take a while to evolve. Things are changing, but it's going to take time. I accept this rather than getting angry about it.

Women Time Angry Think

I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being compared to Hattie Jacques. For the record, she was a comedy goddess, but she was 25 stone. I hope I'm right in saying I'm not in any way nearly 25 stone.

Hope You Saying Confident

I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: 'I'm an idiot, aren't we all a bit like this, laugh at me.' Whereas, a lot of other comedians are saying: 'Aren't I clever? You want to be me, aren't I cool? Revere me.' Which is fine. But that's not my bag.

Cool Me Think You

I suppose you want me to say I'm at parties all the time and am secretly going out with Tom Cruise, but I am afraid that is not the case. I'm still in my pyjamas at nine o'clock each night, watching ITV2 without telling anyone.

Time I Am Night Me

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

Pain Writing Humour Months

Being tall is very good for reaching high shelves and seeing in a crowd. Sadly, it has also given me the inability to dance. There's too much of me to look neat, which is most disappointing.

Good Me Dance Look

I think babies are a bit boring, actually. They're OK when they're older; they make you laugh. I think we all think that, really - we just don't say it.

Think You Laugh Boring

I want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and people better watch out - I will gallop.

Dance People Moments Better

I hate the fact that we all feel the pressure to go to gyms, have a trainer if money allows, get jogging - all those societal pressures to keep fit and look a certain way.

Hate Money Look Feel

When my sitcom 'Miranda' first became successful, I was so in the thick of working and I was so stressed that I didn't really enjoy the moment. You suddenly look back and go, 'Gosh, you've just got to enjoy every day.' And now I wake up and literally pinch myself every day.

Myself Day Moment Look

I did things like get in a cupboard before the teacher came in at the beginning of a lesson, and then, two minutes before the end of the class, I come out of the cupboard and go, 'Sorry I'm late.'

Teacher Sorry Beginning End

I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing.

Dance Go More Go For It

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

Love Me Joy Comedy

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