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I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.
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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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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That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.
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My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.
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There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
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Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. Someone being serious or angry might be funny. If you get angry, the first thing I want to do is laugh because I don't know why you're getting that angry. Pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.
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I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, Just give me enough rope and then fire me.
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I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.
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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 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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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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Be happy. It really annoys negative people.
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America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.
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Where there's a will - there's a relative!
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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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Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats.
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[As a kid] I did enjoy making people laugh but I was also attracted to funny people. I'm [still] quite happy to not be the one trying to make other people laugh. I'm happy laughing at someone else. I enjoy laughing and I'll happily be the one just laughing all night if you can make me laugh.
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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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I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with The Simpsons... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.
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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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