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
bad material
You can get away with bad material if you've got charisma.
reading people half
Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.
naughty jail boss
If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.
cynical behinds
You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.
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.
english-writer
Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.
book books-and-reading english-writer join
Why by a book when you can join a library.
law people above-the-law
Famous people are above the law,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
sex gay rights
Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights....