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It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change.

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Ricky Gervais
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 25
Actor
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Musician
Radio Personality
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Stand-Up Comedian
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I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.
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I don't do anything for the money.
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If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?
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