512 Quotes by 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.

If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you’re bullet-proof.

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.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer.

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.

I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It’s just an endless well, embarrassment.

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.

I’m a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.

No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That’s the fun bit.