Ricky Gervais Quotes - Page 7

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• I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Wearing cosmetics that were tested on animals makes you ugly on the inside

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  Animal, Ugly, Cosmetics

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jul 11, 2014

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• I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

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  Please Me, Done, Common

  Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. April 15, 2010.

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• I don't think a comedian should even be concerned with being cool or sexy, as soon as you do, you aren't a comedian any more. Looks are still the most important thing for women when it comes to meeting a partner. And that's fair enough, but a sense of humour is really important too. For starters, it's a great indicator of whether you are going to get on. If the first time you go on a date you don't find each other funny, there's a fundamental problem.

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  Sexy, Thinking, Comedian

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• There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.

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  Jobs, Differences, Careers

  "Ricky Gervais Interview: 'Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb', Corpsing With Ben Stiller And The Best Bits Of His Job". The Huffington Post UK Interview, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 4, 2015.

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• I don't think humans are meant to be looked at when we're buying pants.

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  Thinking, Pants, Buying

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• I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.

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  Acting, Comedy, Fraternity

  "Night At The Museum - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!

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  Hollywood, Responsible, Worst

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.

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  Hurt, Digging A Hole, Embarrassment

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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• If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

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  Glowing, Attention, Pay

  "Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant ('The Ricky Gervais Show')". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

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  Witty, Stars, Home

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.

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  Real, Character, Thinking

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• A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

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  Lying, White, World

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• I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Laughing

  "Ricky Gervais chasing after thrill of comedy, 'being cult'". Interview with Courtney Crowder, www.chicagotribune.com. December 16, 2010.

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• I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.

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  Office, Firsts, Poverty

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

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  Sheep, Wolves In Sheep's Clothing, Clothings

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• Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.

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  Writing, Discipline, Tvs

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• I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.

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  Song, Stars, Pops

  "Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Constantine and Sam Eagle Talk MUPPETS MOST WANTED, Musical Sequences, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2014.

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• I've got the attention span of a child.

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  Children, Attention, Attention Span

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• My physique is down to 20 years of eating cheese.

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  Years, Cheese, Eating

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• I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that.

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  Thinking, Office, Special

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• I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.

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  Art, Thinking, Years

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• When someone thanks God, I don't get offended.

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  Thank God, Thanks, Thanks God

  "Rick Gervais Is Totally Not Sorry About Golden Globes: 'Nobody Has The Right Not To Be Offended'" by Joseph Alexiou, www.businessinsider.com. January 21, 2011.

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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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  Fire, Giving, Boss

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

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  Religious, Growing Up, Pain

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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