Miranda Hart
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Biography
Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke, is an English actress, comedian and writer. She has won three Royal Television Society awards, four British Comedy Awards and four BAFTA nominations for her self-driven semi-autobiographical BBC sitcom Miranda (2009–2015).
"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."
"Look in the mirror and say, 'There is none other like you and for that reason alone you are beautiful."
"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."
"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."
"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.'"
"About me - I used to want to be a P.E. teacher, and kind of still do."
"I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift."
"I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture."