Ricky Dene Gervais is an English comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. He is best known for co-creating, writing, and acting in the British television series The Office. Profoundly inspirational Ricky Gervais quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous Ricky Gervais Quotes
Famous people are above the law. Ricky Gervais
Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer Ricky Gervais
Mondays are fine. It’s your life that sucks. Ricky Gervais
The world is bigger than all the parts. That’s the important thing, and one thing can throw everything off kilter. And you must never let yourself off. You’ll let yourself off by mistake. So you shouldn’t do it consciously. You have to be above it all and just be very disciplined with it. Just be very disciplined with it. Ricky Gervais
You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway. Ricky Gervais
I’ve never been insulted by hateful Satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God. Ricky Gervais
I think everyone has the ability to be loved. Ricky Gervais
Famous people are above the law. Ricky Gervais
You do your own thing and you see if you survive. Ricky Gervais
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 the story. And for me, it’s about empathy, and I think the more real someone is, the further you can go either way with them. Ricky Gervais
You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke. Ricky Gervais
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
Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally. Ricky Gervais
Take a picture, not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals Ricky Gervais
Remember, if you don’t sin, then Jesus died for nothing. Ricky Gervais
Same sex marriage isn’t a gay privilege, it’s equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don’t. Ricky Gervais
Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right. Ricky Gervais
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
I am not a wolf in sheep’s clothing, I’m a wolf in wolf’s clothing. Ricky Gervais
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
Beliefs do not change facts. Facts, if one is rational, should change beliefs. Ricky Gervais
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. Ricky Gervais
Your critics want you to be as unhappy, unfulfilled, and unimportant as they are. Let your happiness eat them up from inside.Ricky Gervais
Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally. Ricky Gervais
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. Ricky Gervais
I think everyone has the ability to be loved. Ricky Gervais
Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid. Ricky Gervais
Opinions don’t affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do if you’re rational Ricky Gervais
Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer. Ricky Gervais
We only do what we think is good and what we’re happy with. I’d rather have something that’s completely mine fail than something succeed that I’m not proud of. Ricky Gervais
That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end, leads to liberation and dignity. Ricky Gervais
Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They atheists are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they’re doing things because they’re right because they live by a moral code. Ricky Gervais
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. Ricky Gervais
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
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
I never think of myself as a celebrity or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer director. Ricky Gervais
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
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they’re very rarely the same. Ricky Gervais
Everything I do is somehow rooted in humanity. It’s always about people; it’s always about ego. It’s always about desperation. It’s quite existential. You know, ‘Am I leading a good life?’ That might be because I’m an atheist, and I think this is all we’ve got, so you better be nice. And have fun. Ricky Gervais
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
The best advice I’ve ever received is, ‘No one else knows what they’re doing either. Ricky Gervais
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. Ricky Gervais
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. Ricky Gervais
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.
With Netflix, I browse; I watch documentaries about things I’d never dream of, but I think, ’I might as well. Ricky Gervais
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.
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. Ricky Gervais
Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they’re doing things because they’re right, because they live by a moral code.
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. Ricky Gervais
Humanity is a plague. We’re a disgusting, narcissistic, selfish parasite, and the world would be a better place without us.
