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
sarcastic depressing jobs
The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're good at their job and they're there for the customer. The only depressing thing is a lot of them have written more screenplays than me.
jobs growing-up laughing
Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.
jobs play
I don't do anything for the money.
country jobs children
What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover? It’s the people, investment in people. My proudest moment here wasn’t when I increased profits by 17%, or cut expenditure without losing a single member of staff. No. It was a young Greek guy, first job in the country, hardly spoke a word of English, but he came to me and he went ‘Mr. Brent, will you be the Godfather to my child?’. Didn’t happen in the end. We had to let him go, he was rubbish. He was rubbish!
jobs healthy trying
Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now
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.
jobs careers differences
There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.
jobs work ambition
Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.
character flawed forget good john
I'm a flawed character. I'm good at that. ... I'm your man. If you want John Wayne, forget it.
england run
I'm from a little place called England ... We used to run the world before you.
audience audiences
It was like an audience with the Pope,
anybody bothered free radio
I want to do a radio show where I can say what I want, when I want and that's free for anybody who can be bothered to listen.
broad comedies exactly favorite focus groups guest laughter onto people stick time tracks vision watching
That's exactly what it did on BBC2. The people that get onto focus groups are force-fed big, broad comedies with laughter tracks and guest appearances. They're not going to like 'The Office' the first time they see it because they're not going to know what they're watching exactly. But if you stick to your vision and auteur it the way you think it should be done, there are enough people in the world that are like-minded and they're going to find it and it's going to be their favorite show.
both cup exactly move seconds turn
They'd both tell you exactly what they wanted. 'Ashley, do this. Move the cup there. Turn round, take two seconds and then look.' And you just have to go, 'Yeah, you know what you're doing.'