Top 180 Ricky Gervais Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.”

— Ricky Gervais

152. “Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!”

— Ricky Gervais

153. “I’m basically a ‘do unto others’ type person. I don’t have any religious feelings because I’m an atheist, but I live my life like there’s a God. And if there was he’d probably love me.”

— Ricky Gervais

154. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

155. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

156. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

157. “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

158. “I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it’s whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.”

— Ricky Gervais

159. “I think what makes us human is those choices – whether to tell the truth or not.”

— Ricky Gervais

160. “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

161. “I think Hollywood’s gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there’s no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.”

— Ricky Gervais

162. “I’ve been nominated four times, never won. And the whole world is going, ‘Why hasn’t Winslet won one?’ That’s why I’m doing it. “Schindler’s Bloody List,” “The Pianist,” Oscars coming out of their ass.”

— Ricky Gervais

163. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

164. “A joke isn’t yours. It’s used and you don’t know where it’s been.”

— Ricky Gervais

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

— Ricky Gervais

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

— Ricky Gervais

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

— Ricky Gervais

168. “I never think of myself as a celebrity – or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.”

— Ricky Gervais

169. “I think that’s the fundamental thing – you can go anywhere you like as long as you’re following a character that the audience likes and understands.”

— Ricky Gervais

170. “Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it’s all my memories of growing up.”

— Ricky Gervais

171. “My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn’t reoffended. I think he’s going straight, which shows you prison does work.”

— Ricky Gervais

172. “I’ve got the attention span of a child.”

— Ricky Gervais

173. “Whatever else is happening, things are better in the sun.”

— Ricky Gervais

174. “Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.”

— Ricky Gervais

175. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

176. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

177. “I don’t think humans are meant to be looked at when we’re buying pants.”

— Ricky Gervais

178. “It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be “You came up with the idea. Why do you believe it?” I could tell you I’ve got superpowers. But I can’t go up to people saying “Prove I can’t fly.” They’d go: “What do you mean ‘Prove you can’t fly’? Prove you can!”

— Ricky Gervais

179. “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.”

— Ricky Gervais

180. “I don’t miss doing things with her. I miss doing nothing with her.”

— Ricky Gervais

181. “You can laugh at bad things without being bad people.”

— Ricky Gervais

182. “Here lies Ricky Gervais: He had a laugh then found a lump.”

— Ricky Gervais

183. “PC culture isn’t killing comedy, it’s driving it. As it always did.”

— Ricky Gervais

184. “Screw it. I’ll be in my Mansion soon.”

— Ricky Gervais