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" 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
Religion
He
Know
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" I think being nice is more important than being clever. "
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" 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.' "
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" How many times have we seen reality celebrities fall from grace - often through no fault of their own - and then go on a show like 'Celebrity Big Brother' and say, 'I want to show the public a different side of me.' And I'm screaming at the telly going, 'This is not therapy. This is voyeurism!' "
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" Everything I do is somehow rooted in humanity. It's always about people; it's always about ego. It's always about desperation. It's quite existential. You know, 'Am I leading a good life?' That might be because I'm an atheist, and I think this is all we've got, so you better be nice. And have fun. "
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Have Fun
Good
Fun
" You can be watching the greatest film in the world, and if you hear your neighbor getting into a fight, you're at the window. "
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World
You
" I don't do one-liners, because you don't learn anything about that comedian. "
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Because
Anything
About
" People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same. "
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Subject
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" 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. "
Ricky Gervais
Best
World
Work
" I find comedy easy, and I find drama exciting and tantalising. "
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Easy
Exciting
Find
" 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. "
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Care
You
People
" I am myself sometimes, and I do state my opinions, but not in a comedy routine and not in my character. There always has to be some sort of layer to it. "
Ricky Gervais
Myself
Layer
I Am
" I'm a fan of the kind of political correctness that is about not promoting prejudice. But some people in America are offended by equality because when you've had privilege for so long, equality feels like oppression. "
Ricky Gervais
People
Equality
America
" Believe it or not, I work out regularly. "
Ricky Gervais
Believe
Out
Work Out
" If you spend your days doing what you love, it is impossible to fail. So I go about my days trying to bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. And then everyone gets furious about it. And then I sit back and say, 'I did that!' "
Ricky Gervais
World
Impossible
Love
" Your reputation is still the most important thing that you've got. "
Ricky Gervais
Your
You
Reputation
" I'm an optimist. "
Ricky Gervais
Optimist
" Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming! "
Ricky Gervais
Someone
Thought
Intellectual
" Let's be honest here: Twitter, for me, is 90 per cent a marketing tool. "
Ricky Gervais
Marketing
Honest
Here
" I don't care whether people say, ''The Office' is rubbish, 'Extras' is worse, 'Flanimals' is a waste of time. He's not funny; he never has been. I hate him.' I don't mind that at all. In fact, not only do I expect it, I celebrate it, because I think the haters are really important. "
Ricky Gervais
Time
People
Think
" Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away. "
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Shut Up
Look
Me
" The second series is always my favourite as a writer/director; you can hit the ground running... so that's fun. "
Ricky Gervais
You
Running
Hit
" Making people laugh is easy for me. I'm quite proud of that. But I'm prouder of silencing an audience for a minute because they're thinking about something. "
Ricky Gervais
Easy
Thinking
Proud
" I could always take a joke. I could always be the butt of the joke. I could always hand it out. That was just who I was. "
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Joke
Butt
Take
" I lift weights. Then I put them down again. "
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Down
Again
Lift
" With Netflix, I browse; I watch documentaries about things I'd never dream of, but I think, 'I might as well.' "
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Dream
Think
Watch
" 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. "
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Day
Wine
Me
" Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result. "
Ricky Gervais
Tests
Time
Science
" You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke. "
Ricky Gervais
Joke
Laugh
Depends
" 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. "
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She
You
Me
" I've been lucky enough to be able to choose exactly where I want to live. "
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Choose
Where
Want