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
atheist son special
I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?".
song stars pops
I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.
song moving dancing
I was okay with singing. I always sneak a song into everything I do. Dancing, a little awkward. Little embarrassed about that. I don't move well. But I was with a frog, so it doesn't matter. I'll do anything with a frog, that's my motto. He's great with tap-dancing or flap-dancing on my head. So no one's going to be looking at me when we're doing that dance. They're going to be saying, 'There's a frog dancing'.
fooling people rock roll suit
People see me in the suit and they know I'm not fooling anyone, they know I'm rock and roll through and through.
andy bad idiot owes whereas
Brent was essentially an idiot who wasn't that bad but just wanted to be popular, ... whereas Andy has a different theme: The world owes him a living.
fascinated shy whereas
I've always been fascinated with actors who have to be heroes, whereas I shy away from that,
bad material
You can get away with bad material if you've got charisma.
ensemble icing
The A-list celebrities were always going to be the icing on the cake. It's always been more of an ensemble piece.
sit table
You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it 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.'
english-writer
Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.
backs hard red slapping
We were slapping each other's backs so hard we were red raw.
became fault les lonely perception played press whipping
But it's the press perception of him we played with, ... Les isn't a sad, lonely man. Through no fault of his own, he became a whipping boy.
fascinated grows hope office people saying thrown together work
No one grows up saying 'I hope I work in an office one day?' And that fascinated me. People from 16 to 65 are just thrown together and that is a tantalizing mix,
hit ideas list mad months people sam scripts send sent spend spent spoke three time wrote yes
We had a hit list of people we approached, ... We told them some of the ideas we had. Because we spent such a long time writing the scripts for each episode, it would be mad to spend three months on a script for Sam Jackson, send it to him, and he goes, 'Why would I do that?' So we got a preliminary yes out of them, and then went way, wrote the ideas, spoke to them on the phone, sent them the script, and they all said yes.