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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.
Ricky Gervais
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Ricky Gervais
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 25
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The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.
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You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad.
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Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer
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I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, Oh God, I can't finish this. Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.
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Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.
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Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.
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You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
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I fought a bear once. But it started crying, so I let it off.
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It breaks your heart when you throw something away, but it's what left that counts. It's like worrying about the bits of rock you have knocked off in order to make a beautiful statue. You've wasted half the rock, yeah, but it's the Venus di Milo!
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The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given.
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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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Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.
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I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.
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You now have the least amount of time you've ever had, to do everything you've ever wanted to do. Enjoy your life. You only get one
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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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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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Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all.
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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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