Ricky Gervais Quotes
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If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely.
— Ricky Gervais
Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.
— Ricky Gervais
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.
— Ricky Gervais
When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.
— Ricky Gervais
We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.
— Ricky Gervais
Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.
— Ricky Gervais
Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.
— Ricky Gervais
Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.
— Ricky Gervais
Remember, no one can hurt your feelings without your permission
— Ricky Gervais
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.
— Ricky Gervais
Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.
— Ricky Gervais
I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.
— Ricky Gervais
She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton.'
— Ricky Gervais
I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.
— Ricky Gervais
That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.
— Ricky Gervais
I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.
— Ricky Gervais
No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.
— Ricky Gervais
Be happy. It really annoys negative people.
— Ricky Gervais
I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.
— Ricky Gervais
Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer
— Ricky Gervais
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
— Ricky Gervais
I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt.
— Ricky Gervais
Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.
— Ricky Gervais
Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year ... by cosmetic surgeons.
— Ricky Gervais
Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.
— Ricky Gervais
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.
— Ricky Gervais
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.
— Ricky Gervais
Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better
— Ricky Gervais
If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice.
— Ricky Gervais
The grass isn't always greener on the other side!
— Ricky Gervais
Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got.
— Ricky Gervais
I 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 Gervais
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
— Ricky Gervais
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.
— Ricky Gervais
It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!
— Ricky Gervais
You do your own thing and you see if you survive.
— Ricky Gervais
It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change.
— Ricky Gervais
The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.
— Ricky Gervais
Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: 'Do this or you'll burn in hell.
— Ricky Gervais
I always chose all my friends on whether they were funny. What's a better way to pass the time than laughing or smiling?
— Ricky Gervais
Remember, if you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing
— Ricky Gervais
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.
— Ricky Gervais
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.
— Ricky Gervais
I can't find someone funny whom I don't like. Hitler told great jokes. I didn't find it funny at all.
— Ricky Gervais
I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.
— Ricky Gervais
I'm a pretty big Ricky Gervais fan.
— Craig Roberts
Your critics want you to be as unhappy, unfulfilled and unimportant as they are. Let your happiness eat them up from inside
— Ricky Gervais
You now have the least amount of time you've ever had, to do everything you've ever wanted to do. Enjoy your life. You only get one
— Ricky Gervais
Famous people are above the law,
— Ricky Gervais
Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.
— Harvey Weinstein
Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals
— Ricky Gervais
Do this or you'll burn in hell.
— Ricky Gervais
Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.
— Ricky Gervais
Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights ...
— Ricky Gervais
I fought a bear once. But it started crying, so I let it off.
— Ricky Gervais
You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad.
— Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.
— David Walliams
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.
— Ricky Gervais
I don't do anything for the money.
— Ricky Gervais
I love how people walk around with crucifixes, skullcaps, pointy hats, funny beards and then say 'you should keep your atheism to yourself.'
— Ricky Gervais
Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.
— Ricky Gervais
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.
— Ricky Gervais
You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
— Ricky Gervais
There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.
— Ricky Gervais
Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on the computer.
— Ricky Gervais
With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.
— Ricky Gervais
To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.
— Ricky Gervais
If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?
— Ricky Gervais
Body language is more powerful than words.
— Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais is a genius.
— Oscar Nunez
The funniest part of that joke is, 'say what you will about Hitler'.
-to Ricky Gervais on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee — Jerry Seinfeld
-to Ricky Gervais on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee — Jerry Seinfeld
I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.
— Ricky Gervais
There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.
— Ricky Gervais
The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth.
— Ricky Gervais
I've got the attention span of a child.
— Ricky Gervais
You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.
— Ricky Gervais
My physique is down to 20 years of eating cheese.
— Ricky Gervais
Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.
— Ricky Gervais
Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.
— Ricky Gervais
People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.
— Ricky Gervais
Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it's a right fucking pain in the arse
— Ricky Gervais
Thank you God for making me an atheist.
— Ricky Gervais
My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.
— Ricky Gervais
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.
— Ricky Gervais
Comedy is a medicine - a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better
— Ricky Gervais