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" 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
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" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Youth
Things
You
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Wind
Bread
Family
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Wish
Career
I Wish
" I think, for a shy person - and I was very shy until my mid-20s - having been to an all-girls' school is not brilliant on the boyfriend front later. Because when I went to university, it was definitely like meeting a new species of people. Suddenly, at age 19, I was thinking: 'Can you speak to these people?' I was very, very nervous. "
Miranda Hart
Think
School
Thinking
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Life
Better
Feel
" 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 want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and people better watch out - I will gallop. "
Miranda Hart
Moments
Better
Dance
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Just
Always
Myself
" 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'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. "
Miranda Hart
Laughter
Confident
Dark
" 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 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. "
Miranda Hart
You
Me
Night
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Talking
Feel
Worry
" 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
" 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
" Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain! "
Miranda Hart
Sitcom
Writing
Humour
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Day
Enjoy
Moment
" I kiss, but I don't tell. "
Miranda Hart
Kiss
Tell
" My greatest fear is fear. Ooh, meta. "
Miranda Hart
Fear
Greatest
Ooh
" 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
" 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. "
Miranda Hart
Say
Time
Speak
" I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade. "
Miranda Hart
I Am
I See
Myself
" 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
" 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
" Pessimism is my default setting. "
Miranda Hart
Pessimism
Setting
Default
" There are some professions that culturally and sociologically take a long time to change, and because of that, there's still sexism in comedy audiences. We shouldn't blame them: I do it too. A woman comes on, and I feel slightly anxious. I'm a woman in comedy, and I do that; I think everyone does. "
Miranda Hart
Long
Blame
Time
" I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully. "
Miranda Hart
Your
Skin
Eating