Ricky Gervais Quotes - Page 4

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• Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now

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  Jobs, Healthy, Trying

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jun 28, 2014

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• It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it: Breakfast.

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  Party, Drinking, Night

  "Emmy Award Winners 2011: Ricky Gervais 'Banned' From Attending" by Luiza Oleszczuk, www.christianpost.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I don't feel any pressure at all because I don't care. That's an occupational hazard... but if you're doing anything of any worth, and not doing something that's safe and anodyne and trying to be populist and a national treasure, then you've got to assume that as many people hate what you do - and you - as like what you do and like you.

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  Hate, People, Trying

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

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• Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals

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  Real, Animal, Men

  Twitter post from Apr 08, 2017

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• I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.

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  Thinking, Creative, Soul

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

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• My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.

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  Hero, Men, Thinking

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• It's a privilege to be in such a great category of people and... I don't believe in God, so I'd like to thank dogs. Dogs have given me everything.

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  Dog, Believe, People

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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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  Criticism, Way, Best Way

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jun 10, 2014

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• Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

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  Death, Suicide, Cat

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• I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.

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  Excited, Adrenaline, Bores

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

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• That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.

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  Blackboard, Amazing Things

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• I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me.

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  Religious, Atheist, Feelings

  "Office Ricky's not in it for fame". Daily Mirror Interview, www.rickygervais.com. November 15, 2004.

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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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  Jobs, Growing Up, Laughing

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

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• Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm... you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great.

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  Loyalty, Encouragement, People

  "The Office". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2001 - 2003.

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• Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.

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  Atheism, Belief, Claims

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2013

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• The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

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  Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides, Grass Growing

  "Fictional character: David Brent". "The Office (TV Series) Motivation", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.

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  Ideas, Finishing, Saying No

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

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• In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is someone's rude to us, or we accidentally insult someone. Social faux pas is the worst thing that happens to most people, most days, so we've got to concentrate on that, really.

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  People, Rude, World

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

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• Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.

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  Fun, Afterlife, Assuming

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Nov 12, 2013

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• I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.

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  Opportunity, Giving, Rich

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

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• I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth.

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  Sports, Fun, Beer

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• I get so sick of people asking: "What's your demographic?" Or: "Oh we've got to aim this at..." No, you have to aim it at you. You do the thing you would love... make the thing you would love and be proud of. There's enough people in the world that, if you do that and do it well as a single vision, they'll go: "That's my favourite thing ever!"

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  Sick, People, Vision

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

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• Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

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  Ordinary Extraordinary, Honest, Starting

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• That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

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  Dignity, Ends, Liberation

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• Do this or you’ll burn in hell.

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  Hell

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