Top 180 Ricky Gervais Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I believe the greatest privilege in this world is to use your freedom of speech for those who have no voice.”

— Ricky Gervais

102. “No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That’s the fun bit.”

— Ricky Gervais

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

— Ricky Gervais

104. “I think everyone has the ability to be loved.”

— Ricky Gervais

105. “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!””

— Ricky Gervais

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

— Ricky Gervais

107. “Science makes us understand how to stay alive longer – feelings give us the reason to want to.”

— Ricky Gervais

108. “Life is an amazing gift, but it’s only a gift if you’re able to enjoy it.”

— Ricky Gervais

109. “I’d rather be no where without her than somewhere without her.”

— Ricky Gervais

110. “Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you’ve got to want it.”

— Ricky Gervais

111. “Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.”

— Ricky Gervais

112. “Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you believe in god, you’re wrong.”

— Ricky Gervais

113. “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

114. “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

115. “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!”

— Ricky Gervais

116. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

117. “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

118. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

119. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

120. “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

121. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

122. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

123. “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

124. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

125. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

126. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

127. “I don’t do anything for the money.”

— Ricky Gervais

128. “Do this or you’ll burn in hell.”

— Ricky Gervais

129. “Your critics want you to be as unhappy, unfulfilled and unimportant as they are. Let your happiness eat them up from inside.”

— Ricky Gervais

130. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

131. “That’s what being nervous and sort of out of your comfort zone does. It’s the same in “The Office” when a black guy comes to the office and all he thinks is ‘I better show this guy I’m not a racist.’ So what does he do? Only talks about black issues.”

— Ricky Gervais

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

— Ricky Gervais

133. “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

134. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

135. “When someone thanks God, I don’t get offended.”

— Ricky Gervais

136. “It’s quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it’s often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them.”

— Ricky Gervais

137. “It breaks your heart when you throw something away, but it’s what left that counts. It’s like worrying about the bits of rock you have knocked off in order to make a beautiful statue. You’ve wasted half the rock, yeah, but it’s the Venus di Milo!”

— Ricky Gervais

138. “I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.”

— Ricky Gervais

139. “My ideal meal would probably be the cheesiest pasta or pizza, followed by something creamy and chocolaty. I mean, just the worst things, really.”

— Ricky Gervais

140. “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

141. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

142. “My physique is down to 20 years of eating cheese.”

— Ricky Gervais

143. “Popularity and democracy aren’t a judge, they’re just stats.”

— Ricky Gervais

144. “Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.”

— Ricky Gervais

145. “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

146. “I’m quite squeamish, really. I’m philistine and unsophisticated – not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.”

— Ricky Gervais

147. “My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.”

— Ricky Gervais

148. “I think the best advice I’d say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.”

— Ricky Gervais

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

— Ricky Gervais

150. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais