Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervaisis an English comedian, actor, director, producer, writer and former pop singer and manager...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth25 June 1961
CityWhitley, England
book library
Why buy a book when you can join a library?
nice being-nice hell
You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
past people let-me
People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.
children school men
Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.
sick people vision
I get so sick of people asking: "What's your demographic?" Or: "Oh we've got to aim this at..." No, you have to aim it at you. You do the thing you would love... make the thing you would love and be proud of. There's enough people in the world that, if you do that and do it well as a single vision, they'll go: "That's my favourite thing ever!"
atheism hobbies belief
Atheism is a belief system”, is like saying “not going skiing, is a hobby.
jobs thinking laughing
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.
views safe edges
Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better
next moments next-time
The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.
hurt knows
The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth.
religious growing-up pain
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.
party drinking night
It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it: Breakfast.
atheist opposites strange
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.
people target subjects
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.