Hotel bars are pretty good. No one bothers me there. Restaurants are safe. People are quite respectful when you're eating. But what I never do now is go to a busy bar on the weekend, or after 8 o'clock at night. That's the danger zone. Also being trapped. Never go on the Metro, or a bus.
Ricky GervaisI think that's the fundamental thing - you can go anywhere you like as long as you're following a character that the audience likes and understands.
Ricky GervaisWhen you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.
Ricky GervaisI love how people walk around with crucifixes, skullcaps, pointy hats, funny beards and then say 'you should keep your atheism to yourself.'
Ricky GervaisBlasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.
Ricky GervaisPeople think "The Office" was improvised, but it's all on the page. We do that because what we found is that in the early days of "The Office," we went in with it sort of 80 percent scripted and we did some things and then we improv'd and we did - you know, and it gets a laugh on the floor because it's the first time they've heard it.
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