Quotes from Miranda Hart

I have always thought of comedy as an important job and medium, and so I put pressure on myself to do the best I can.

No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.

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.

I don't know who St. Valentine was, but I hope he died alone, surrounded by couples.

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.

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

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.