Ricky Gervais Quotes Page 2

“I think being nice is more important than being clever.”

“I think Dustin Hoffman has been in at least three of my favorite movies of all time with things like 'Tootsie', and 'Marathon Man'.

Getting a bit more arthouse and darker, 'The Graduate' – incredible, barrier-breaking movie, 'The Graduate'.”

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

“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.”

“I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places – they tell you a joke.”

“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.”

“I'd much rather eat exactly what I want, and then burn it off, than diet.”

“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.”

“I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.”

“I've been lucky enough to be able to choose exactly where I want to live.”

“I’ve never been insulted by hateful Satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.”

“If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice.”

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

“If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?”

“If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.”

“If you don’t believe in free speech for people who you hate, fear and disagree with, then you don’t believe in free speech.”

“If you spend your days doing what you love, it is impossible to fail. So I go about my days trying to bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before.

And then everyone gets furious about it. And then I sit back and say: I did that!”

“If you try to please everyone you'll please no one.”

“Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it's a right f*cking pain in the arse :)”

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth... Then he said, 'Let there be light.'

Which means he made the entire universe in the dark! How f*cking good is that? He's brilliant.”

“It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be 'You came up with the idea. Why do you believe it?'

I could tell you I've got superpowers. But I can't go up to people saying 'Prove I can't fly.' They'd go: 'What do you mean 'Prove you can't fly'? Prove you can!”

“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.”

“It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.”

“It’s better to create something that others criticize than to create nothing and criticize others.”

“Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.”

“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.”

“Life is an amazing gift, but it’s only a gift if you’re able to enjoy it.”

“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner.

But it's all good. 'If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain.' Do you know which 'philosopher' said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of t*ts.”

“Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.”

“Making people laugh is easy for me. I'm quite proud of that. But I'm prouder of silencing an audience for a minute because they're thinking about something.”