Ricky Gervais Quotes

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Ricky Gervais

Profession : Writer

Birth : June 25, 1961

My career, I look at it in a Darwinian framework. I'm going to do exactly what I want, and I'm going to survive, or I'm not. I'm not going to pander. I'm not going to change things. I'm not going to do focus groups. I'll live and die by the sword. I don't care. Because I couldn't live with myself.

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I was never ambitious. I was never ambitious at school.

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Let's be honest here: Twitter, for me, is 90 per cent a marketing tool.

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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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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 was very protective of my privacy. I didn't want people to write bad things about me that weren't true, because that's just not fair. Fifty percent of everything written about me is wrong.

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I didn't like noisy cinemas when I wasn't famous.

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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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As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto fringe channels: BBC Two, HBO, Channel 4.

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I've avoided doing a network comedy, because I wouldn't get my own way. Even though it would get more viewers, it wouldn't be mine.

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I stand by 'I'm not going to do 'The Office' again.' That would be weird: all the same people sitting at the same desks at a paper merchant's in Slough.

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I think Spielberg is a master. I think 'Jaws' invented a genre.

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I always do a little bit of improv. I did some of 'The Office,' a tiny bit in 'Extras,' a bit more in 'Derek.'

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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.

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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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I was David Bowie-thin up to about 28, and then I discovered food.

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I'd much rather eat exactly what I want, and then burn it off, than diet.

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I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection.

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Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.

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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.

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