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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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Ricky Gervais
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 25
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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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To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.
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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 feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.
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I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.
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Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.
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Hotel bars are pretty good. No one bothers me there. Restaurants are safe. People are quite respectful when you're eating. But what I never do now is go to a busy bar on the weekend, or after 8 o'clock at night. That's the danger zone. Also being trapped. Never go on the Metro, or a bus.
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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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The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.
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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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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'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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I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.
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I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth.
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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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Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. Some people are offended by mixed marriage, gay people, atheism. So what? F*** 'em.
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She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton.'
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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.
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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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