Top 180 Ricky Gervais Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

52. “You could easily spot any Religion of Peace. Its extremist members would be extremely peaceful.”

— Ricky Gervais

53. “Remember, being healthy is basically dying as slowly as possible.”

— Ricky Gervais

54. “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

55. “Basically, you deny one less God than I do. You don’t believe in 2,999 gods. And I don’t believe in just one more.”

— Ricky Gervais

56. “If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you’re bullet-proof.”

— Ricky Gervais

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

— Ricky Gervais

58. “Comedy is a medicine – a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better.”

— Ricky Gervais

59. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

60. “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

61. “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.””

— Ricky Gervais

62. “Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.”

— Ricky Gervais

63. “The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.”

— Ricky Gervais

64. “You do your own thing and you see if you survive.”

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65. “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

66. “Piracy doesn’t kill music, boy bands do.”

— Ricky Gervais

67. “I fought a bear once. But it started crying, so I let it off.”

— Ricky Gervais

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

— Ricky Gervais

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

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70. “It always comes back to us – why are we here? Well, we just happened to be here, we couldn’t choose it. The chance of us being born – that sperm hitting that egg – is 400 trillion to 1. We’re not special, we’re just lucky; and this is a holiday. We didn’t exit for 14 and a half billion years. Then we got 80 or 90 years if we’re lucky, and then we’ll never exist again. So we should make the most of it.”

— Ricky Gervais

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

74. “Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don’t know whether you’re in a trough until you’re climbing out, or on a peak until you’re coming down. And that’s it you know, you never know what’s round the corner. But it’s all good. “If you want the rainbow, you’ve gotta put up with the rain.” Do you know which “philosopher” said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she’s just a big pair of tits.”

— Ricky Gervais

75. “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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76. “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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77. “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

78. “I’ve never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.”

— Ricky Gervais

79. “I’m a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.”

— Ricky Gervais

80. “She said, ‘I’m your biggest fan,’ and I said, ‘Who are you?’ She said, ‘Paris Hilton.’”

— Ricky Gervais

81. “Never confuse your right to say what you believe with a right to never be disagreed with and ridiculed for saying what you believe.”

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82. “There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.”

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83. “Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.”

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84. “My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don’t get run over. Or stabbed.”

— Ricky Gervais

85. “We’re All Screwed Up In One Way Or Another. It Sort Of Makes You Normal.”

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86. “Of all the disciplines involved in making anything – TV, film or anything I do – the writing is the most valuable commodity.”

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87. “You can’t censor stupidity.”

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88. “Well, I think life is precious because you can’t watch it again. I mean you can believe in an after life if that makes you feel better but once you realize you’re not going to be around forever, I think that’s what makes life so magical.”

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89. “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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90. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

91. “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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92. “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

93. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

94. “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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95. “America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he’s not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.”

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96. “That’s the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.”

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97. “Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals.”

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98. “Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all.”

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99. “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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100. “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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