Top 100 Ricky Gervais Quotes
#2. In entertainment, I adore Ricky Gervais in 'Derek.' His performance is unbelievably charming, funny and poignant. In life, I adore my girlfriend. She is the most adorable person I have ever met - from her silly jokes to her cute teeth to her little drawings.
Josh Zuckerman
#3. With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.
Emily Blunt
#4. Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.
David Walliams
#5. I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids.
Stephan Pastis
#6. I love British voicing and British humour in general. I'm a huge Ricky Gervais fan.
McG
#7. Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.
Harvey Weinstein
#8. The funniest part of that joke is, 'say what you will about Hitler'.
-to Ricky Gervais on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Jerry Seinfeld
#9. On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.
Greg Daniels
#10. Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn't have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of people, such as Michael Scott in The Office [Carell's character in the US version of the Ricky Gervais sitcom], have some decent human qualities that you can latch onto.
Steve Carell
#11. I'm not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais' stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen's things. But I'm not an expert on them. I've seen them once.
Chris Lilley
#12. Some of my favorite shows are Ricky Gervais' 'Extras' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'
Brian Dunkleman
#14. I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting - if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
Rachel Sklar
#15. I'll watch Ricky Gervais in anything he does. The guy's hilarious.
Danny DeVito
#16. I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.
Dick Van Dyke
#17. Working with Ricky Gervais one week, Rutger Hauer another week, John Stamos, was fantastic.
Joshua Sasse
#18. My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
Hank Azaria
#19. It's not terrible, I guess, but if Ricky Gervais was half as talented as me, maybe the show would actually be funny once in a while.
Zach Braff
#20. Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.
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#21. 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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#22. The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth.
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#23. Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.
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#24. 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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#25. No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.
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#26. It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!
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#27. That's what life is, it's the small struggles. You walk down the street for half an hour, you see half an hour of drama. You don't need convoluted plot lines. You don't need long-lost brothers. You don't need it's set on the future; it's set on the moon.
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#28. Atheism is a belief system",
is like saying "not going skiing, is a hobby.
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#29. 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.
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#30. The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given,
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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that 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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#37. 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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#40. Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better
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#41. A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.
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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. 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.
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#46. I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth.
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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. Remember, no one can hurt your feelings without your permission
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#50. 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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#51. Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.
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#52. I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.
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#53. I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.
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#54. I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.
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#58. 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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#59. You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London anyway, or you hit Wales and you're in another country! Also, wherever you are in England it's still raining.
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#60. If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.
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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.
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#64. 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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#65. Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats.
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#66. 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.
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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. I fought a bear once. But it started crying, so I let it off.
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#70. My ideal meal would probably be the cheesiest pasta or pizza, followed by something creamy and chocolaty. I mean, just the worst things, really.
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#71. That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.
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#72. Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!
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#73. 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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#74. Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.
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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.
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#79. I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.
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#80. Beliefs do not change facts. Facts, if one is rational, should change beliefs.
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#81. It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it: Breakfast.
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#82. 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.
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#83. I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.
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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?
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#87. Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all.
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#89. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you believe in god, you're wrong.
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#90. Wearing cosmetics that were tested on animals makes you ugly on the inside
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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.
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#96. I like every part [of the film process ] except the business and admin stuff. The initial idea. Writing. Re-writing. Casting. Directing, Editing. If I had to chose I'd say writing, followed by putting music on the picture. That is magical.
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#97. 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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#98. It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change.
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