If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
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… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Funny bones, to me, are more important than funny lines. If a comedian is just not likable and doing the lines, you… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu?… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I can't stand it. I can't stand someone being embarrassed. I don't know why. If someone slips over and the first thing… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you believe in god, you're wrong. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I don't feel any pressure at all because I don't care. That's an occupational hazard... but if you're doing anything of any… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really.… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I get so sick of people asking: "What's your demographic?" Or: "Oh we've got to aim this at..." No, you have to… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I don't like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, 'What are we gonna do about all these immigrants?' and… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
When I was about to be famous, I feared it on a few levels. I feared it because I didn't want people to lump… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I am myself sometimes, and I do state my opinions, but not in a comedy routine and not in my character. There always has… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Wearing cosmetics that were tested on animals makes you ugly on the inside — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
