Ricky Gervais Quotes - Page 7

I don't think humans are meant to be looked at when we're buying pants.

I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.

I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

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.

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

I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.

I've got the attention span of a child.

My physique is down to 20 years of eating cheese.

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

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.

When someone thanks God, I don't get offended.

I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me."

Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

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.

Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.

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.

It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.

We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.

She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton.'