Ricky Gervais Quotes
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It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.
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You are the result of billions of years of evolution. You will only live for a few years and will never exist again. Absolutely beautiful
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You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
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Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats.
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Remember, no one can hurt your feelings without your permission
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When someone thanks God, I don't get offended.
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The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising.
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Thank you God for making me an atheist.
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When I direct my own scripts, it's much easier as it's been in my head for a year already... What I love about this is having an idea and seeing it come to fruition on screen. I would like to direct someone else's script one day, but I might not get round to it before I die - you can't legislate for being hit by a bus!
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I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.
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Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.
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The grass isn't always greener on the other side!
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Be happy. It really annoys negative people.
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You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.
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My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.
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People see me, and they see the suit, and they go: "you're not fooling anyone", they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old. That's the way- not orthodox, I don't live by "the rules" you know.
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You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.
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Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.
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America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.
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I've got the attention span of a child.
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I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me."
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Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on the computer.
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If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.
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Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!
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When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.
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Funny bones, to me, are more important than funny lines. If a comedian is just not likable and doing the lines, you could read them yourself. Whereas if someone [you like] shambles out, and they tell you what a bad day they've had, they don't have to say anything. I love them. I want to hug them because they've been through something. And it comes back to empathy, always empathy.
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Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. Some people are offended by mixed marriage, gay people, atheism. So what? F*** 'em.
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I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.
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There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
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With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.
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