110+ Ricky Gervais Quotes On Animals, Dogs And Comedy

Ricky Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, and writer. He is best known for creating the British television series The Office, Extras, and Derek, and for co-writing and acting in the British comedy films Cemetery Junction and The Invention of Lying. Gervais has also written and starred in the Netflix comedy-drama series After Life. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ricky Gervais on life, animals, dogs.

Top 10 Ricky Gervais Quotes

1. I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.
2. The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.
3. Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.
4. It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!
5. The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.
6. Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got.
7. Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer
8. Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.
9. We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.
10. The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

Ricky Gervais Short Quotes

• Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.
• Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better
• If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.
• It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it: Breakfast.
• She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton.'
• You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.
• Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights.
• Body language is more powerful than words.
• I lift weights. Then I put them down again.
• I think Spielberg is a master. I think 'Jaws' invented a genre.

Ricky Gervais Quotes About Life

Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous. — Ricky Gervais

If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely. — Ricky Gervais

Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible. — Ricky Gervais

That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again. — Ricky Gervais

You now have the least amount of time you've ever had, to do everything you've ever wanted to do. Enjoy your life. You only get one — Ricky Gervais

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 life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me. — Ricky Gervais

I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth. — Ricky Gervais

I like grown-up comedy, where it's about character and attitude and life as opposed to obvious gross-out and jokes. — Ricky Gervais

Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks — Ricky Gervais

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. — Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais Quotes About Animals

Wearing cosmetics that were tested on animals makes you ugly on the inside — Ricky Gervais

Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals. — Ricky Gervais

Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain. — Ricky Gervais

The only thing that really depresses me is animal cruelty. — Ricky Gervais

Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals — Ricky Gervais

Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them. — Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais Quotes About Comedy

Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now — Ricky Gervais

I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces. — Ricky Gervais

I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity. — Ricky Gervais

Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It's about character first. It's about story. And for me, it's about empathy, and I think the realer someone is, the further you can go either way with them. — Ricky Gervais

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all. — Ricky Gervais

I am myself sometimes, and I do state my opinions, but not in a comedy routine and not in my character. There always has to be some sort of layer to it. — Ricky Gervais

I've avoided doing a network comedy, because I wouldn't get my own way. Even though it would get more viewers, it wouldn't be mine. — Ricky Gervais

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 find comedy easy, and I find drama exciting and tantalising. — Ricky Gervais

I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore. — Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais Quotes About Jokes

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. — Ricky Gervais

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 they get a round the applause. I think, 'Well that's not a joke. That's just your biased opinion.' — Ricky Gervais

I can't find someone funny whom I don't like. Hitler told great jokes. I didn't find it funny at all. — Ricky Gervais

Real racist jokes or sexist jokes aren't funny - not because they're offensive, but because they're not true. As soon as a joke is based on an untruth, it's not funny. — Ricky Gervais

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. — Ricky Gervais

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

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke. — Ricky Gervais

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

I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection. — Ricky Gervais

A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been. — Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais Quotes About Laughing

I always chose all my friends on whether they were funny. What's a better way to pass the time than laughing or smiling? — Ricky Gervais

It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them. — Ricky Gervais

My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed. — Ricky Gervais

[As a kid] I did enjoy making people laugh but I was also attracted to funny people. I'm [still] quite happy to not be the one trying to make other people laugh. I'm happy laughing at someone else. I enjoy laughing and I'll happily be the one just laughing all night if you can make me laugh. — Ricky Gervais

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. — Ricky Gervais

Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life. — Ricky Gervais

The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like. — Ricky Gervais

I remember asking my mum when I was about 13, 'Why are my brothers and sister so much older than me?' And she just said, 'You were a mistake.' And I laughed. — Ricky Gervais

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now. — Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais Quotes About People

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them. — Ricky Gervais

Be happy. It really annoys negative people. — Ricky Gervais

Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are. — Ricky Gervais

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!" — Ricky Gervais

Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. Some people are offended by mixed marriage, gay people, atheism. So what? F*** 'em. — 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

Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm... you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great. — Ricky Gervais

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 me in with those people who'd do anything to be famous. I didn't like the word 'celebrity.' I feared intrusion, you know? Make me famous, and suddenly you can go through my trash bins. — Ricky Gervais

When people say to me: would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss? My answer's always the same, to me, they're not mutually exclusive. — Ricky Gervais

Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down. — Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais Quotes About Famous

I've got three friends that you'd call famous, but I'm sure after 20 years, most of my friends will be famous or work in television, because that's the nature of what your work is. When I was working in an office, most of my friends worked in offices. — Ricky Gervais

People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous - they do bad things because they're rewarded for it. — Ricky Gervais

To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he's just not good enough. — Ricky Gervais

Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you're a successful comedian or actor, then you're a famous one. But it's not the driving force. It's a by-product. — Ricky Gervais

I didn't like noisy cinemas when I wasn't famous. — Ricky Gervais

People think that it's fun to meet celebrities - but what do you mean by "celebrity"? Someone you recognise? What are they famous for? It's people who've done something that are exciting. — Ricky Gervais

I'd never tried as hard with anything as I did with 'The Office,' and it was one of the things I'm proud of. I wasn't trying to be famous or a comedian, but this opportunity came along when I was 38 or 39. It came late, and I couldn't have been prouder of it. — Ricky Gervais

I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, "Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book. — Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais Quotes About Important

I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something. — Ricky Gervais

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. — Ricky Gervais

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. — Ricky Gervais

I think being nice is more important than being clever. — Ricky Gervais

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

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

Your reputation is still the most important thing that you've got. — Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais Quotes About World

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

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

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!' — Ricky Gervais

The best script in the world doesn't work perfectly when you actually act it out. That's a law. That's a given. So you have to play with everything. And the more fun you have with it, the better the finished product. — Ricky Gervais

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. — Ricky Gervais

I've been nominated four times, never won. And the whole world is going, `Why hasn't Winslet won one?' That's why I'm doing it. "Schindler's Bloody List," "The Pianist," Oscars coming out of their ass. — Ricky Gervais

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery. — Ricky Gervais

I want to get all the nations of the world together, it doesn't matter what colour or creed, and I want to sit them down and say: "Guys, The Office is still available on DVD." — 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

I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you. — Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais Famous Quotes And Sayings

Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869. — Ricky Gervais

I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good and that are bad. And I've met people who don't believe in God that are good and that are bad. So, just be good. I'm good. Not cos I think I'll go to heaven but because when I do something bad, I feel bad. And when I do something good, I feel good. — Ricky Gervais

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa. — Ricky Gervais

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. — Ricky Gervais

Your God is the best God. In fact, he's the only God. All other Gods are ridiculous, made up rubbish. Not yours though. Yours is real. — Ricky Gervais

I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens. — Ricky Gervais

I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that. — Ricky Gervais

Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins. — Ricky Gervais

I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof. — Ricky Gervais

Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code. — Ricky Gervais

We didn't evolve; God made us. So I just want to explain to you exactly how that happened... Some of the things you'll hear do sound a little bit far-fetched. I admit that. Then I found out that the other name for The Bible is The Gospel, so it is all true. Luckily, the clue is in the title. — Ricky Gervais

America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us. — Ricky Gervais

I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped. — 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

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture. — Ricky Gervais

The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie movie and the other five hundred will be Mr. Darcy. So we had to find cool, working class kids with no profile who could be John Travolta and James Dean and people like that. — Ricky Gervais

That's what being nervous and sort of out of your comfort zone does. It's the same in "The Office" when a black guy comes to the office and all he thinks is `I better show this guy I'm not a racist.' So what does he do? Only talks about black issues. — Ricky Gervais

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse. — Ricky Gervais

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

Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my memories of growing up. — Ricky Gervais

For every wacky postcard, there's a million people waiting to buy it, and for every $10 million of those things, there's one Rembrandt. Purposely, I think I want to aim at doing something that a lot of people won't like. I'm just worried that it looks like I've compared my work with Rembrandt. "Gervais says he's better than Rembrandt!". — Ricky Gervais

I get so sick of people asking: "What's your demographic?" Or: "Oh we've got to aim this at..." No, you have to aim it at you. You do the thing you would love... make the thing you would love and be proud of. There's enough people in the world that, if you do that and do it well as a single vision, they'll go: "That's my favourite thing ever!" — Ricky Gervais

If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die? — Ricky Gervais

How many times have we seen reality celebrities fall from grace - often through no fault of their own - and then go on a show like 'Celebrity Big Brother' and say, 'I want to show the public a different side of me.' And I'm screaming at the telly going, 'This is not therapy. This is voyeurism!' — Ricky Gervais

My ideal meal would probably be the cheesiest pasta or pizza, followed by something creamy and chocolaty. I mean, just the worst things, really. — Ricky Gervais

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do. — Ricky Gervais

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

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

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

People see me, and they see the suit, and they go: "you're not fooling anyone", they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old. That's the way- not orthodox, I don't live by "the rules" you know. — Ricky Gervais

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary. — Ricky Gervais

Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all. — Ricky Gervais

Daniel Day-Lewis would play me as a baby. He can do anything. Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt are fighting out for me now. And Meryl Streep will play me after the sex change. I haven't told you about that, have I? — Ricky Gervais

In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is someone's rude to us, or we accidentally insult someone. Social faux pas is the worst thing that happens to most people, most days, so we've got to concentrate on that, really. — Ricky Gervais

I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?" — Ricky Gervais

Do this or you’ll burn in hell. — Ricky Gervais

I don't believe in ghosts or ESP or elves... or God. But I am spiritual in the sense that I get a lump in my throat when I listen to Vaughan Williams. — Ricky Gervais

Comedy is a medicine - a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better — Ricky Gervais

When I go to work, I don't want to make depressing, gritty, urban stories that are depressing to watch. I want to give people something to enjoy. When people think I'm a control freak and an ogre - which I am - it's only because I want my work to be accessible and Everyman, in a way. — Ricky Gervais

I think Dustin Hoffman has been in at least three of my favorite movies of all time with things like 'Tootsie,' 'Marathon Man.' Getting a bit more arthouse and darker, 'The Graduate' - incredible, barrier-breaking movie, 'The Graduate.' — Ricky Gervais

Proper stupidity is fascinating. — Ricky Gervais

People think "The Office" was improvised, but it's all on the page. We do that because what we found is that in the early days of "The Office," we went in with it sort of 80 percent scripted and we did some things and then we improv'd and we did - you know, and it gets a laugh on the floor because it's the first time they've heard it. — Ricky Gervais

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones. — Ricky Gervais

I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do. — Ricky Gervais

I'm a fang-toothed, blob-nosed, slouchy slob. — Ricky Gervais

Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time! — Ricky Gervais

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational — Ricky Gervais

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

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you. — Ricky Gervais

I feel sorry for people in power. I feel sorry for the Queen, in a way, that she hasn't had a normal life. It'd difficult for me to hate anyone. Immediately someone's unpopular, I feel sorry for them. — Ricky Gervais

Thank you God for making me an atheist. — Ricky Gervais

I didn't know I was poor, growing up, because everyone was in the same boat. I couldn't have bikes. It never really bothered me, but I could have any book. I loved school; I loved learning. Yeah, I never cared for possessions. I still don't, really. — Ricky Gervais

The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given. — Ricky Gervais

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director. — Ricky Gervais

I don't believe in about 2700 Gods. Christians don't believe in 2699 Gods. They're nearly as atheistic as me. — Ricky Gervais

Our challenge with "The Office" and "Extras" was to get it completely scripted but to find a cast that could make it look like they were saying it for the first time. — Ricky Gervais

I love how people walk around with crucifixes, skullcaps, pointy hats, funny beards and then say 'you should keep your atheism to yourself.' — Ricky Gervais

Life Lessons by Ricky Gervais

1. Ricky Gervais teaches us to never take ourselves too seriously, to embrace our flaws and to always strive to be the best versions of ourselves.
2. He also encourages us to be kind to one another and to be mindful of the impact our words and actions have on others.
3. Lastly, Gervais reminds us that life is too short to waste time on things that don't bring us joy, and to focus on the things that make us happy.