Ricky Gervais Quotes

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

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn't. It's not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can't have your own facts.

— Ricky Gervais

“As an atheist, I see nothing "wrong" in believing in a God. I don't think there is a God, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that's fine with me. It's when belief starts infringing on other people's rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a God. I would just rather you didn't kill people who believe in a different God, say. Or stone someone to death because your rulebook says their sexuality is immoral. It's strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens, would also want to judge and punish people for what they are.”

— Ricky Gervais

“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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“We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and that's what's extraordinary- ordinary people and their struggle. There's nothing as interesting as real life out your window. You walk down the street for half an hour, I'll give you half an hour of drama.”

— Ricky Gervais

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth ... Then he said, "Let there be light." Which means he made the entire universe in the dark! How fucking good is that? He's brilliant.

— Ricky Gervais

“Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.”

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

— Ricky Gervais

“Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights ...”

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“I've never been insulted by hateful satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.”

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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

Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

— 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

“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.”

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“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.”

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“Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better”

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“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.”

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“The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're good at their job and they're there for the customer. The only depressing thing is a lot of them have written more screenplays than me.”

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

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My physique is down to 20 years of eating cheese.

— Ricky Gervais

“If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?”

— Ricky Gervais

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

— Ricky Gervais

It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change.

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“Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It's about character first. It's about story. And for me, it's about empathy, and I think the realer someone is, the further you can go either way with them.”

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“I like my baths really deep and hot. But washing everything only takes a few minutes. So I thought it would be a waste to just flush all that water away. So there was nothing else to do but take pictures of myself trying to look as horrendous as possible. Oh my, what have I started?”

— 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

“Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.”

— Ricky Gervais

“Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.”

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“People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.”

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“With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.”

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“We didn't evolve; God made us. So I just want to explain to you exactly how that happened ... Some of the things you'll hear do sound a little bit far-fetched. I admit that. Then I found out that the other name for The Bible is The Gospel, so it is all true. Luckily, the clue is in the title.”

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“Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.”

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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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“You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.”

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“I'm not a person that's easily embarrassed, but I'm embarrassed for other people.”

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“Our challenge with "The Office" and "Extras" was to get it completely scripted but to find a cast that could make it look like they were saying it for the first time.”

— 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

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

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

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“I want to get all the nations of the world together, it doesn't matter what colour or creed, and I want to sit them down and say: "Guys, The Office is still available on DVD."”

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“Body language is more powerful than words.”

— Ricky Gervais

“I feel sorry for people in power. I feel sorry for the Queen, in a way, that she hasn't had a normal life. It'd difficult for me to hate anyone. Immediately someone's unpopular, I feel sorry for them.”

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“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.”

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“There are good and bad critics like good or bad artists. A good critic says why they didn't like it. A bad critic gives it away that they don't like you as a person. I quite like that as well, because it means that I've won.”

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The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

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“I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book.”

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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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Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

— Ricky Gervais