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Ricky Gervais
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Ricky Gervais
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 25
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I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, well, why's he getting the special treatment?
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Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.
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I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.
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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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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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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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I feel sorry for people in power. I feel sorry for the Queen, in a way, that she hasn't had a normal life. It'd difficult for me to hate anyone. Immediately someone's unpopular, I feel sorry for them.
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A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.
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I use people's real voices because I want realism. So often I mention the actors' physicality because I want it to be like a real documentary.
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Be happy. It really annoys negative people.
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I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.
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Daniel Day-Lewis would play me as a baby. He can do anything. Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt are fighting out for me now. And Meryl Streep will play me after the sex change. I haven't told you about that, have I?
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You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
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People see me, and they see the suit, and they go: you're not fooling anyone, they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old. That's the way- not orthodox, I don't live by the rules you know.
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You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.
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I fought a bear once. But it started crying, so I let it off.
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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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Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.
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My physique is down to 20 years of eating cheese.
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When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.
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