English - Writer | June 25, 1961 -
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.
Ricky Gervais
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When I was growing up, I didn't like cheese. I had to wean myself onto cheese.
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Your reputation is still the most important thing that you've got.
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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.
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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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Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you're a successful comedian or actor, then you're a famous one. But it's not the driving force. It's a by-product.
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Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.
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Where there's a will - there's a relative!
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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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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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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.
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The second series is always my favourite as a writer/director; you can hit the ground running... so that's fun.
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