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I don't live by The Rules you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is a maverick, someone who does 'that' to the system then it's Ian Botham.

Ricky Gervais

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Ricky Gervais
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 25
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Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.
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A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
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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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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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I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.
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Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.
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Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats.
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It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be You came up with the idea. Why do you believe it? I could tell you I've got superpowers. But I can't go up to people saying Prove I can't fly. They'd go: What do you mean 'Prove you can't fly'? Prove you can!
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Where there's a will - there's a relative!
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I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.
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Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now
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I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.
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Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
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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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