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" Let's be honest here: Twitter, for me, is 90 per cent a marketing tool. "
Ricky Gervais
Marketing
Honest
Here
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" I'm a fang-toothed, blob-nosed, slouchy slob. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things. "
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" I've got re-addicted to normal people, which is the loveliest thing to write about. "
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People
Which
About
" 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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Ego
" I've been lucky enough to be able to choose exactly where I want to live. "
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Want
" I love 'The Godfather' and 'Casablanca' - great stories, acted well, made well. "
Ricky Gervais
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" When I see a headline 'Guess who's going out with who?' I don't guess, and I don't click. "
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Click
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" All of my friends are oddities. "
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Friends
" Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe. "
Ricky Gervais
Truth Is
You
Science
" Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away. "
Ricky Gervais
Shut Up
Look
Me
" I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes. "
Ricky Gervais
Elderly
Forgotten
Sometimes
" The only thing that really depresses me is animal cruelty. "
Ricky Gervais
Really
Only
Me
" You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke. "
Ricky Gervais
Joke
Laugh
Depends
" I always do a little bit of improv. I did some of 'The Office,' a tiny bit in 'Extras,' a bit more in 'Derek.' "
Ricky Gervais
Little
Improv
Office
" I think it's important to hold a mirror up to society and yourself. "
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Hold
Think
Yourself
" Stephen Merchant looks like a Muppet. I mean, he looks like Beaker. "
Ricky Gervais
Looks
He
Like
" 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
" Why buy a book when you can join a library. "
Ricky Gervais
Book
Why
You
" With the Internet era and social media and politics being so out there with the lies, now you've got people denying things they're on camera doing, and then you've got people not really caring about the truth. You've got people supporting people who've done horrific things, but just don't want the other side to get any satisfaction. "
Ricky Gervais
Politics
Social Media
Truth
" When I go to work, I don't want to make depressing, gritty, urban stories that are depressing to watch. I want to give people something to enjoy. When people think I'm a control freak and an ogre - which I am - it's only because I want my work to be accessible and Everyman, in a way. "
Ricky Gervais
Want
Think
People
" I don't mind what people say about me as long as it's an opinion or the truth. If someone says, 'He's the worst comedian in the world,' that's fine. If someone says, 'His face makes me want to punch the TV,' that's fine. But if they say, 'Oh, and I know for a fact he hunts squirrels,' I go: no, no, no... that's a lie. "
Ricky Gervais
Truth
Face
Lie
" When I was about to be famous, I feared it on a few levels. I feared it because I didn't want people to lump me in with those people who'd do anything to be famous. I didn't like the word 'celebrity.' I feared intrusion, you know? Make me famous, and suddenly you can go through my trash bins. "
Ricky Gervais
You
Famous
Know
" I didn't like noisy cinemas when I wasn't famous. "
Ricky Gervais
Like
Famous
Noisy
" 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. "
Ricky Gervais
Honor
Gift
You
" Stupidity without malice isn't horrible; some people can't help it. "
Ricky Gervais
Help
People
Some People
" I think Spielberg is a master. I think 'Jaws' invented a genre. "
Ricky Gervais
Think
Genre
I Think
" You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.' "
Ricky Gervais
World
Back
Create
" I think Dustin Hoffman has been in at least three of my favorite movies of all time with things like 'Tootsie,' 'Marathon Man.' Getting a bit more arthouse and darker, 'The Graduate' - incredible, barrier-breaking movie, 'The Graduate.' "
Ricky Gervais
Time
Think
Movies
" I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection. "
Ricky Gervais
Jokes
I Think
Art