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Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

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Ricky Gervais
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 25
Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Ricky Dene Gervais
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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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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 have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.
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I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.
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Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.
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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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I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.
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People think The Office was improvised, but it's all on the page. We do that because what we found is that in the early days of The Office, we went in with it sort of 80 percent scripted and we did some things and then we improv'd and we did - you know, and it gets a laugh on the floor because it's the first time they've heard it.
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I like every part [of the film process ] except the business and admin stuff. The initial idea. Writing. Re-writing. Casting. Directing, Editing. If I had to chose I'd say writing, followed by putting music on the picture. That is magical.
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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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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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Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.
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I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book.
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Body language is more powerful than words.
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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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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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You are the result of billions of years of evolution. You will only live for a few years and will never exist again. Absolutely beautiful
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You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London anyway, or you hit Wales and you're in another country! Also, wherever you are in England it's still raining.
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You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc.
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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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