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

I'd never tried as hard with anything as I did with 'The Office,' and it was one of the things I'm proud of. I wasn't trying to be famous or a comedian, but this opportunity came along when I was 38 or 39. It came late, and I couldn't have been prouder of it.

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Stupidity without malice isn't horrible; some people can't help it.

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You give up a lot being an atheist.

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Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.

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Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.

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Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently.

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I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.

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

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People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

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I see my real job now as - never mind 'The Office,' 'Extras,' film career, Emmys - I want everyone in the world to know who Karl Pilkington is.

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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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With Netflix, I browse; I watch documentaries about things I'd never dream of, but I think, 'I might as well.'

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People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous - they do bad things because they're rewarded for it.

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I'm a fang-toothed, blob-nosed, slouchy slob.

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I've been lucky enough to be able to choose exactly where I want to live.

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

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You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

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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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When I go to work, I don't want to make depressing, gritty, urban stories that are depressing to watch. I want to give people something to enjoy. When people think I'm a control freak and an ogre - which I am - it's only because I want my work to be accessible and Everyman, in a way.

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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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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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Ego is hilarious - especially the vanity of a comedian. As soon as you see one start worrying about how cool he is or about how many stadiums he can fill, he stops being funny.

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I don't like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, 'What are we gonna do about all these immigrants?' and they get a round the applause. I think, 'Well that's not a joke. That's just your biased opinion.'

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Why buy a book when you can join a library.

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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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I do the Golden Globes because they say I can say what I want. I wouldn't have that at the Oscars.

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I didn't know I was poor, growing up, because everyone was in the same boat. I couldn't have bikes. It never really bothered me, but I could have any book. I loved school; I loved learning. Yeah, I never cared for possessions. I still don't, really.

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Comedy is easy for me, but with drama, I don't know... it's still the Holy Grail.

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Stephen Merchant looks like a Muppet. I mean, he looks like Beaker.

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I've got re-addicted to normal people, which is the loveliest thing to write about.

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I could always take a joke. I could always be the butt of the joke. I could always hand it out. That was just who I was.

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Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.

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When I was growing up, I didn't like cheese. I had to wean myself onto cheese.

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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 think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.

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