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" As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto fringe channels: BBC Two, HBO, Channel 4. "

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" Ego is hilarious - especially the vanity of a comedian. As soon as you see one start worrying about how cool he is or about how many stadiums he can fill, he stops being funny. "

Ricky Gervais

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Ego

" I remember asking my mum when I was about 13, 'Why are my brothers and sister so much older than me?' And she just said, 'You were a mistake.' And I laughed. "

Ricky Gervais

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You

" I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them. "

" Stephen Merchant looks like a Muppet. I mean, he looks like Beaker. "

Ricky Gervais

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" I like grown-up comedy, where it's about character and attitude and life as opposed to obvious gross-out and jokes. "

" I was David Bowie-thin up to about 28, and then I discovered food. "

Ricky Gervais

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David

" I'm influenced by those '40s, '50s, and '60s films: things like 'The Apartment' - I was a big fan of Billy Wilder. "

" A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That's luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that's a disgusting attitude, revolting. "

" The best script in the world doesn't work perfectly when you actually act it out. That's a law. That's a given. So you have to play with everything. And the more fun you have with it, the better the finished product. "

" Let's be honest here: Twitter, for me, is 90 per cent a marketing tool. "

" I like flying to New York from London. It's like a day off for me. No phone or e-mails. Food, wine, iPod, movies, snoozing. "

Ricky Gervais

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Wine

" If I've only got a career if I bring David Brent back, you can have it. "

" I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke. "

" Oh, let's face it: I hate everything in others. "

Ricky Gervais

Everything

Face

" It's funny because I was offered film parts the first week after 'The Office' went out. I was sent a script, and I said, 'Who's the lead?' They said, 'We want you to be.' And I said: 'Well, who's going to go and see that? You want John Cusack.' "

" Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me. "

Ricky Gervais

Stage

Educated

" I love 'The Godfather' and 'Casablanca' - great stories, acted well, made well. "

" I do the Golden Globes because they say I can say what I want. I wouldn't have that at the Oscars. "

" If I was a research scientist, I'd want people to say, 'You know what, he's a great research scientist, that Ricky Gervais. He's really good, really good.' You know, I'd go to award ceremonies for research scientists and go, 'Yeah, I really worked hard, yeah.' It's brilliant. "

" I don't know what Trump has to do to lose his supporters. It's like a religion. He's a school bully. "

Ricky Gervais

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Know

" When I see a headline 'Guess who's going out with who?' I don't guess, and I don't click. "

" What makes 'Derek' a different kind of sitcom - if it is even a sitcom - is its sincerity. "

" I've got re-addicted to normal people, which is the loveliest thing to write about. "

" Proper stupidity is fascinating. "

" I really just want to make Karl Pilkington the new messiah. "

" Why buy a book when you can join a library. "

" I lift weights. Then I put them down again. "

" My dad was a laborer. And he used to get up at 5:30 every morning. He worked for 50 years of his life, in all weathers for, by showbiz standards, petty cash. I remind myself of that when I feel a little bit spoiled or hard done by. "

" There are no Hollywood stars speaking out for the elderly. They're forgotten, bewildered, and I don't think it's because people are cruel or don't care. It's because you don't want to think about your own mortality. I think people don't talk about it enough. "

" I think being nice is more important than being clever. "

Ricky Gervais

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Clever