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" About me - I used to want to be a P.E. teacher, and kind of still do. "
Miranda Hart
Still
Want
Teacher
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" I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully. "
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Your
Skin
Eating
" I do feel that there is a little confusion in people's minds between the real me and sitcom Miranda. I am pleased that people identify with the character, but I think they want me to be her and are disappointed that the real Miranda doesn't actually fall into graves or be that rubbish at life. "
Miranda Hart
Life
Me
People
" You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy. "
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Life
Battle
Comedy
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
You
Comedy
Hope
" 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.' "
Miranda Hart
Beautiful
You
Woman
" Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I've no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities. "
Miranda Hart
Dog
Home
Family
" Marriage was never a dream or an ambition for me. I thank my real mother for the fact that - unlike my sitcom mother - she never put any pressure on me or my sister to marry. "
Miranda Hart
Marriage
Mother
Ambition
" I wanted to be a farmer's wife. I thought it would be quite fun to wake up of a morning, collect eggs and have sheep and pigs as pets. I know now that it would also involve having to sleep with the farmer, but at the time I wasn't thinking about the sexual implications - I was 11. "
Miranda Hart
Sleep
Fun
Morning
" I absolutely don't write for women - far, far from it. It's so not what I want to do. Some of the writers, who have helped out at the beginning and end of the process - they're all men - have suggested quite feminine subjects they want me to explore. And I'm always, simply, 'No.' I don't want to do diets, don't want to. I just can't do it. "
Miranda Hart
Beginning
Men
Process
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Weird
Love
People
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Home
Fashion
Life
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Love
Joy
Alone
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Beautiful
Best
Blessed
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Beautiful
Woman
Happy
" My greatest crush was Chandler from 'Friends.' And Goran Ivanisevic. "
Miranda Hart
Crush
Friends
Greatest
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Dance
Good
Me
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Hate
Way
Pressure
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Situation
Life
Time
" I am pleased to say that as I get older, I get less and less like the sitcom 'Miranda.' She is really a clown character, a heightened version of the 20-something me. "
Miranda Hart
Clown
Character
I Am
" Being tall when I was youngerl I was always a bit awkward. As a teenager, I was very, very thin, so I was very gangly and limby, and would sweep things off the table without realising how big my wingspan was - just out of control. A lot of women write to me and say, 'I'm six foot and exactly the same happens' - that's been lovely therapy. "
Miranda Hart
Control
Women
Tall
" I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy. "
Miranda Hart
Me
Love
Joy
" I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing. "
Miranda Hart
Go
Go For It
Much
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Know
Time
Angry
" People are obviously going to mention what I look like, but it's a shame it has to be a key part. I can't just be Miranda. "
Miranda Hart
People
Look
Like
" I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's going to end up on national television. "
Miranda Hart
Writing
Pressure
Saying
" I'm not particularly into the formal, political side of faith, although I am spiritual and I do have a faith. But 'Strictly Come Dancing' is my religion. "
Miranda Hart
Side
Spiritual
I Am
" 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. "
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Sea
Happy
View
" 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.' "
Miranda Hart
Sorry
End
Go
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
You
Saying
Me
" 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.' "
Miranda Hart
I Am
People
Life