512 Quotes by Ricky Gervais

The A-list celebrities were always going to be the icing on the cake. It's always been more of an ensemble piece.

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. Someone being serious or angry might be funny. If you get angry, the first thing I want to do is laugh because I don't know why you're getting that angry. Pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.

You can get away with bad material if you've got charisma.

The world is bigger than all the parts. That's the important thing, and one thing can throw everything off kilter. And you must never let yourself off. You'll let yourself off by mistake. So you shouldn't do it consciously. You have to be above it all and just be very disciplined with it. Just be very disciplined with it.

When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.

We were slapping each other's backs so hard we were red raw.

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

The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given,