Miranda Hart
Miranda Hart

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.

Miranda Hart
Miranda Hart

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
Miranda Hart

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
Miranda Hart

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

Miranda Hart
Miranda Hart

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

Miranda Hart
Miranda Hart

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
Miranda Hart

I kiss, but I don't tell.

Miranda Hart
Miranda Hart

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

Miranda Hart
Miranda Hart

If I had had plastic surgery, I would have asked for something better than the face you are seeing! I actually really hate plastic surgery when it's just for aesthetics and anti-ageing. I think ageing is beautiful and expressive and characterful.

Miranda Hart
Miranda Hart

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
Miranda Hart

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.

Miranda Hart
Miranda Hart

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
Miranda Hart

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
Miranda Hart

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
Miranda Hart

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
Miranda Hart

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
Miranda Hart

We all get given these bodies, and they're all fascinating and different... I wouldn't want to be without the wrinkles.

Miranda Hart
Miranda Hart

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
Miranda Hart

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
Miranda Hart

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.