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" I think comedies should be short. I don't want to be self-indulgent; I don't want a two-hour comedy. "
Ricky Gervais
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I've been lucky enough to be able to choose exactly where I want to live. "
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" Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe. "
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" People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't know why other people are concerned about other people's lives that much. "
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" I see my real job now as - never mind 'The Office,' 'Extras,' film career, Emmys - I want everyone in the world to know who Karl Pilkington is. "
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" 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. "
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Ego
People
" I'm a fang-toothed, blob-nosed, slouchy slob. "
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" Where there's a will - there's a relative! "
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" To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he's just not good enough. "
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" I'd never tried as hard with anything as I did with 'The Office,' and it was one of the things I'm proud of. I wasn't trying to be famous or a comedian, but this opportunity came along when I was 38 or 39. It came late, and I couldn't have been prouder of it. "
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" That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it. "
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" Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it. "
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" 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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" Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently. "
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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. "
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" I don't do karaoke. I don't dance, even at weddings. I'm the grumpy one sitting down drinking wine. "
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