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I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

Ricky Gervais

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Ricky Gervais
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 25
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I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.
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I've got three friends that you'd call famous, but I'm sure after 20 years, most of my friends will be famous or work in television, because that's the nature of what your work is. When I was working in an office, most of my friends worked in offices.
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Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm... you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great.
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People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
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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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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 remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that.
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In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is someone's rude to us, or we accidentally insult someone. Social faux pas is the worst thing that happens to most people, most days, so we've got to concentrate on that, really.
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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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The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.
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Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks
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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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Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights.
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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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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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I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.
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I don't do anything for the money.
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No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.
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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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There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.
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