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I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.
Ricky Gervais
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Ricky Gervais
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 25
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Ricky Dene Gervais
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My physique is down to 20 years of eating cheese.
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Our challenge with The Office and Extras was to get it completely scripted but to find a cast that could make it look like they were saying it for the first time.
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I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.
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We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.
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That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.
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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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Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.
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Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.
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There are good and bad critics like good or bad artists. A good critic says why they didn't like it. A bad critic gives it away that they don't like you as a person. I quite like that as well, because it means that I've won.
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I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.
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Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.
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I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.
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I always chose all my friends on whether they were funny. What's a better way to pass the time than laughing or smiling?
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The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.
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I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.
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We didn't evolve God made us. So I just want to explain to you exactly how that happened... Some of the things you'll hear do sound a little bit far-fetched. I admit that. Then I found out that the other name for The Bible is The Gospel, so it is all true. Luckily, the clue is in the title.
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Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.
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Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.
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It's interesting that music in this country... we sort of sold something to America with The Beatles and they sold something back. And we've never been afraid to embrace American style rock 'n' roll and make it our own over here.
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