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Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better

Ricky Gervais

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Ricky Gervais
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 25
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Musician
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Ricky Dene Gervais
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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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I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.
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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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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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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 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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She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton.'
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The grass isn't always greener on the other side!
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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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Body language is more powerful than words.
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A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.
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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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It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change.
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When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.
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Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.
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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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Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.
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I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.
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It's interesting that music in this country... we sort of sold something to America with The Beatles and they sold something back. And we've never been afraid to embrace American style rock 'n' roll and make it our own over here.
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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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