Top 35 Miranda Hart Quotes

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.

I am not married, no. I wasn’t really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture.

If you’re naturally a certain size, I think it suits you and you can see that. There’s no point in trying to conform for the sake of it. People are meant to be different shapes, and their different shapes are so interesting and, ultimately, why people fall in love with them.

I’d like someone tall, dark and nice. Independent and confident. Not a macho man. Perhaps a little bit girly, in a way. The key for me is if we can cry with laughter.

As a woman, it seems you can’t just be a comedian; you’re always classed as something else, too, whether that’s ‘beautiful,’ ‘pint-sized,’ ‘larger-than-life’ or in my case, ‘Hattie Jacques-esque,’ ‘the giraffe,’ ‘big.’

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.

My greatest fear is fear. Ooh, meta.

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.

I own nothing of value at all. I spend money on experiences.

By the age of 13, I knew I wanted to be a comedian like Morecambe and Wise. So, obviously, I thought I’d better start practising my interviews for Parkinson. Don’t look shocked – I wasn’t the only teenager to imagine that. Though I may have been the only one to have chosen T’Pau as my walk-on music.

I started watching some ‘Doctor Who’ recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime – I’m pathetic.

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.

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.

Pessimism is my default setting.

I have lots of ambitions. I’d love to do theatre. I’d like to be in ‘Tea With Mussolini 2;’ I’d like to touch Meryl Streep – which would involve being with her in some exotic location. I have lots of fantastical dreams.

People come up to me and say, ‘Can I just thank you for writing my life?’ And I reply, ‘I’m glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.’

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

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

I hate talking about my height, because I don’t feel like a tall person… When I see a tall woman, I’m always slightly like, ‘Whoa.’ It looks weird, but that could be because of my complex about it, my worry over whether it’s womanly to be that tall.

About me – I used to want to be a P.E. teacher, and kind of still do.

However much I might have yearned to be one of The Beautiful Ones, particularly at those ghastly school discos, where any desperate attempt to impress the opposite sex lead to at best deep humiliation, I now feel extremely blessed that I wasn’t.

I’ve always felt a bit of an outsider. It used to worry me that, in terms of TV, I did not look like ‘the girlfriend’ or ‘the daughter’. That pushed me to write my own stuff, as I thought no one else was going to write me a lead in the sitcom.

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.

The main reason I got into comedy was in the hope that I could make a few people laugh and feel better about life, and the fact that I do that is quite overwhelming, really.

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.

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.’

I’ll always have to force myself to see the positive, because I’m wired badly, I’d say. I’m just naturally a bit under, a bit depressed.

The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.

I do love to cry. I’ll cry at the drop of a hat. I’ll cry at your basic television programme, let alone a weepie. But not big, heavy, serious crying. I haven’t done that for a while, which is a relief. More like a little welling up of joy.

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

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

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.

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I’d piped up at 18.

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

My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it’s hilarious.