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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
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" 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. "
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Me
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Fall
" I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy. "
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" 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. "
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Blame
Time
" We all get given these bodies, and they're all fascinating and different... I wouldn't want to be without the wrinkles. "
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Get
Wrinkles
Different
" I kiss, but I don't tell. "
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Kiss
Tell
" I am essentially a middle-aged woman who likes making up weird snack combinations and galloping. "
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Likes
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Snack
" 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
" I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It was lucky I had sport, which I was good at, so it didn't matter that I wasn't great on the academic side, or not brilliant at drama. Although I am still bitter about not being in the school choir. Furious, actually. "
Miranda Hart
Education
School
I Am
" 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
" 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. "
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Sleep
Fun
Morning
" 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
" It's a vicious circle. If you feel hideous, you convey it to people. A couple of male friends from university have said, 'I quite fancied you, but I wouldn't have dared...' and I was like, 'Oh really?' I was completely amazed that anyone had ever fancied me, and also that I'd obviously given an impression of 'Don't touch me.' "
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Friends
People
You
" 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. "
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Laughter
Confident
Dark
" 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. "
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Home
Fashion
Life
" 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. "
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People
Look
Like
" I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised. "
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Never
Like
Fighting
" I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade. "
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I Am
I See
Myself
" 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. "
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Writing
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Saying
" My greatest crush was Chandler from 'Friends.' And Goran Ivanisevic. "
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Crush
Friends
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" 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. "
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Hate
Way
Pressure
" I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully. "
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Your
Skin
Eating
" 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. "
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Dreams
Her
Tea
" 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. "
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Dog
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Family
" 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. "
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Talking
Feel
Worry
" 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. "
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Wise
Age
Thought
" My greatest fear is fear. Ooh, meta. "
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Fear
Greatest
Ooh
" 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. "
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You
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" 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. "
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