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
monday fine
Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks
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.
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.
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 together
Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer
texture moral reason
I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.
christian believe devil
I've never been insulted by hateful satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.
wall thinking eggs
I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.
fun having-fun criticise
It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!
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.
mean offended
Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.
thinking years people
I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.
thinking creative soul
I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.
religious epic people
Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.