Top 100 Ricky Gervais Quotes
#1. I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.
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#2. No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.
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#3. It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!
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#4. Atheism is a belief system",
is like saying "not going skiing, is a hobby.
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#5. Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: 'Do this or you'll burn in hell.
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#6. 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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#7. 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.
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#8. Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it's a right fucking pain in the arse
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#9. Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.
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#12. A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.
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#13. What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.
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#14. Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer
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#15. Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.
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#16. 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?
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#17. 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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#18. Remember, no one can hurt your feelings without your permission
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#19. Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.
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#20. Your critics want you to be as unhappy, unfulfilled and unimportant as they are. Let your happiness eat them up from inside
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#21. You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc.
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#22. 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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#23. Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.
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#30. Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.
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#31. I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.
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#32. People think that it's fun to meet celebrities - but what do you mean by "celebrity"? Someone you recognise? What are they famous for? It's people who've done something that are exciting.
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#33. 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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#34. It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it: Breakfast.
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#35. Daniel Day-Lewis would play me as a baby. He can do anything. Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt are fighting out for me now. And Meryl Streep will play me after the sex change. I haven't told you about that, have I?
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#36. There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.
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#37. Wearing cosmetics that were tested on animals makes you ugly on the inside
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#38. I use people's real voices because I want realism. So often I mention the actors' physicality because I want it to be like a real documentary.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Real racist jokes or sexist jokes aren't funny - not because they're offensive, but because they're not true. As soon as a joke is based on an untruth, it's not funny.
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#41. It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change.
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#43. There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.
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#44. I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.
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#45. The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.
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#46. If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.
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#47. Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals
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#48. The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.
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#49. My physique is down to 20 years of eating cheese.
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#50. I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?".
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#51. If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.
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#52. For any of you who don't know, the Golden Globes are just like the Oscars, but without all that esteem. The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. A bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker, and more easily bought.
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#53. 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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#54. I've got three friends that you'd call famous, but I'm sure after 20 years, most of my friends will be famous or work in television, because that's the nature of what your work is. When I was working in an office, most of my friends worked in offices.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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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#57. 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.
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#58. Life is so interesting ... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."
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#59. 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.
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#60. I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.
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#61. 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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#62. I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.
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#64. Comedy is a medicine - a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better
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#65. If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.
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#66. I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.
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#67. Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.
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#69. The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.
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#70. Your God is the best God. In fact, he's the only God. All other Gods are ridiculous, made up rubbish. Not yours though. Yours is real.
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#71. 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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#73. I'm not a person that's easily embarrassed, but I'm embarrassed for other people.
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#74. Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights ...
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#75. 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.
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#76. I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my first love. I was going to be a vet and a marine biologist. I went to university and studied biology for two weeks and I just thought: "I've been conned!"
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#77. I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.
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#78. 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.
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#79. 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.
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#80. 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.
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#81. People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
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#82. 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.
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#83. The only reason I work out is so I can eat more cheese,
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#84. I don't think humans are meant to be looked at when we're buying pants.
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#85. 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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#86. We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.
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#87. You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.
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#88. There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.
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#89. My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.
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#90. I can't stand it. I can't stand someone being embarrassed. I don't know why. If someone slips over and the first thing they do is look around, I pretend I haven't seen it.
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#91. Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.
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#92. [As a kid] I did enjoy making people laugh but I was also attracted to funny people. I'm [still] quite happy to not be the one trying to make other people laugh. I'm happy laughing at someone else. I enjoy laughing and I'll happily be the one just laughing all night if you can make me laugh.
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#93. It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.
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#94. She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton.'
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#95. 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?
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#96. Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.
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#97. I don't believe in about 2700 Gods. Christians don't believe in 2699 Gods. They're nearly as atheistic as me.
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#98. America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.
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#99. I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.
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#100. If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.
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