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People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
Ricky Gervais
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Ricky Gervais
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 25
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If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.
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I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.
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[As a kid] I did enjoy making people laugh but I was also attracted to funny people. I'm [still] quite happy to not be the one trying to make other people laugh. I'm happy laughing at someone else. I enjoy laughing and I'll happily be the one just laughing all night if you can make me laugh.
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In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is someone's rude to us, or we accidentally insult someone. Social faux pas is the worst thing that happens to most people, most days, so we've got to concentrate on that, really.
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Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.
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