Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I love UFC, vigilante films, and any acts of merciless heroism. "
Ricky Gervais
Vigilante
Acts
Any
Related Quotes:
" I was very protective of my privacy. I didn't want people to write bad things about me that weren't true, because that's just not fair. Fifty percent of everything written about me is wrong. "
Ricky Gervais
Privacy
People
Bad
" People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous - they do bad things because they're rewarded for it. "
Ricky Gervais
Famous
People
Live
" Karl Pilkington has the roundest head, I think, in the world. It's not technically a deformity, but I've never seen anything quite that spherical. "
Ricky Gervais
Anything
Head
Think
" As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto fringe channels: BBC Two, HBO, Channel 4. "
Ricky Gervais
Artist
People
See
" I do the Golden Globes because they say I can say what I want. I wouldn't have that at the Oscars. "
Ricky Gervais
Want
They Say
I Can
" Ego is hilarious - especially the vanity of a comedian. As soon as you see one start worrying about how cool he is or about how many stadiums he can fill, he stops being funny. "
Ricky Gervais
Start
Cool
Ego
" I don't do karaoke. I don't dance, even at weddings. I'm the grumpy one sitting down drinking wine. "
Ricky Gervais
Grumpy
Wine
Dance
" A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That's luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that's a disgusting attitude, revolting. "
Ricky Gervais
People
Time
School
" I always do a little bit of improv. I did some of 'The Office,' a tiny bit in 'Extras,' a bit more in 'Derek.' "
Ricky Gervais
Little
Improv
Office
" You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke. "
Ricky Gervais
Joke
Laugh
Depends
" Oh, let's face it: I hate everything in others. "
Ricky Gervais
Everything
Oh
Face
" Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away. "
Ricky Gervais
Shut Up
Look
Me
" I find comedy easy, and I find drama exciting and tantalising. "
Ricky Gervais
Easy
Exciting
Find
" If I've only got a career if I bring David Brent back, you can have it. "
Ricky Gervais
You
Only
Got
" I think comedies should be short. I don't want to be self-indulgent; I don't want a two-hour comedy. "
Ricky Gervais
I Think
Want
Think
" I'm an optimist. "
Ricky Gervais
Optimist
" I was David Bowie-thin up to about 28, and then I discovered food. "
Ricky Gervais
Up
About
David
" When I see a headline 'Guess who's going out with who?' I don't guess, and I don't click. "
Ricky Gervais
See
Click
Going
" It's funny because I was offered film parts the first week after 'The Office' went out. I was sent a script, and I said, 'Who's the lead?' They said, 'We want you to be.' And I said: 'Well, who's going to go and see that? You want John Cusack.' "
Ricky Gervais
Want
You
Said
" There are no Hollywood stars speaking out for the elderly. They're forgotten, bewildered, and I don't think it's because people are cruel or don't care. It's because you don't want to think about your own mortality. I think people don't talk about it enough. "
Ricky Gervais
Care
You
People
" I was never ambitious. I was never ambitious at school. "
Ricky Gervais
School
Ambitious
Never
" Comedy is easy for me, but with drama, I don't know... it's still the Holy Grail. "
Ricky Gervais
Drama
Easy
Know
" I could always take a joke. I could always be the butt of the joke. I could always hand it out. That was just who I was. "
Ricky Gervais
Joke
Butt
Take
" All of my friends are oddities. "
Ricky Gervais
Friends
" I lift weights. Then I put them down again. "
Ricky Gervais
Down
Again
Lift
" My career, I look at it in a Darwinian framework. I'm going to do exactly what I want, and I'm going to survive, or I'm not. I'm not going to pander. I'm not going to change things. I'm not going to do focus groups. I'll live and die by the sword. I don't care. Because I couldn't live with myself. "
Ricky Gervais
Look
Care
Change
" You can be watching the greatest film in the world, and if you hear your neighbor getting into a fight, you're at the window. "
Ricky Gervais
Window
World
You
" I don't care whether people say, ''The Office' is rubbish, 'Extras' is worse, 'Flanimals' is a waste of time. He's not funny; he never has been. I hate him.' I don't mind that at all. In fact, not only do I expect it, I celebrate it, because I think the haters are really important. "
Ricky Gervais
Time
People
Think
" Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently. "
Ricky Gervais
Sometimes
Born
Lucky
" 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
People
Equality
America