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
office poverty firsts
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.
firsts looks embarrassed
I can't stand it. I can't stand someone being embarrassed. I don't know why. If someone slips over and the first thing they do is look around, I pretend I haven't seen it.
children attention attention-span
I've got the attention span of a child.
fun drama heart
With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.
mean gay people
Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. Some people are offended by mixed marriage, gay people, atheism. So what? F*** 'em.
hurt digging-a-hole embarrassment
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.
boys band piracy
Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.
believe animal years
Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.
atheist thank-god
I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.
digging breathe yeah
You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.
atheist thinking heaven
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.
dignity ends uncomfortable
That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.
america champion underdog
America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.
thinking issues office
That's what being nervous and sort of out of your comfort zone does. It's the same in "The Office" when a black guy comes to the office and all he thinks is `I better show this guy I'm not a racist.' So what does he do? Only talks about black issues.