Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

Where there's a will - there's a relative!

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

Why buy a book when you can join a library.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

I think being nice is more important than being clever.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

With Netflix, I browse; I watch documentaries about things I'd never dream of, but I think, 'I might as well.'

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

Comedy is easy for me, but with drama, I don't know... it's still the Holy Grail.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

I'm a fan of the kind of political correctness that is about not promoting prejudice. But some people in America are offended by equality because when you've had privilege for so long, equality feels like oppression.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

With the Internet era and social media and politics being so out there with the lies, now you've got people denying things they're on camera doing, and then you've got people not really caring about the truth. You've got people supporting people who've done horrific things, but just don't want the other side to get any satisfaction.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

I think it's important to hold a mirror up to society and yourself.

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

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.'

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais

Proper stupidity is fascinating.