Explore Quotes by Ricky Gervais

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

Stephen Merchant looks like a Muppet. I mean, he looks like Beaker.

I see my real job now as - never mind 'The Office,' 'Extras,' film career, Emmys - I want everyone in the world to know who Karl Pilkington is.

I find comedy easy, and I find drama exciting and tantalising.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

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.

All of my friends are oddities.

I love 'The Godfather' and 'Casablanca' - great stories, acted well, made well.

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

There's nothing wrong with being respected by your peers. There's nothing wrong with trying to do your best. There's nothing wrong with success. There's not even anything wrong with trying to get a raise. There's nothing wrong with that.

I don't do karaoke. I don't dance, even at weddings. I'm the grumpy one sitting down drinking wine.

My dad was a laborer. And he used to get up at 5:30 every morning. He worked for 50 years of his life, in all weathers for, by showbiz standards, petty cash. I remind myself of that when I feel a little bit spoiled or hard done by.

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

If I just cut out the food, I'd have a six-pack. I'd look like Matthew McConaughey.

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.'

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

Humor is to get us over terrible things.

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

Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for one, just because you have the right to say anything, it doesn't mean you have to.

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.

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.