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
cancer together
Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer
real rubbish facts
Your God is the best God. In fact, he's the only God. All other Gods are ridiculous, made up rubbish. Not yours though. Yours is real.
cancer hate people
Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.
hate people want
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.
monday fine
Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks
stupid painful difficult
When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.
advice best-advice knows
The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.
kids class people
The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie movie and the other five hundred will be Mr. Darcy. So we had to find cool, working class kids with no profile who could be John Travolta and James Dean and people like that.
sex gay rights
Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights....
funny-inspirational gardening world
You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say 'I did that.'
believe thinking if-there-is-a-god
I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good and that are bad. And I've met people who don't believe in God that are good and that are bad. So, just be good. I'm good. Not cos I think I'll go to heaven but because when I do something bad, I feel bad. And when I do something good, I feel good.
bad-day empathy comedian
Funny bones, to me, are more important than funny lines. If a comedian is just not likable and doing the lines, you could read them yourself. Whereas if someone [you like] shambles out, and they tell you what a bad day they've had, they don't have to say anything. I love them. I want to hug them because they've been through something. And it comes back to empathy, always empathy.
animal be-kind please
Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.
sex gay rights
Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.