512 Quotes by Ricky Gervais

I don't know what Trump has to do to lose his supporters. It's like a religion. He's a school bully.

Humor is to get us over terrible things.

If I've only got a career if I bring David Brent back, you can have it.

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.

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.

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.'

I was never ambitious. I was never ambitious at school.

Ego is hilarious - especially the vanity of a comedian. As soon as you see one start worrying about how cool he is or about how many stadiums he can fill, he stops being funny.

Let's be honest here: Twitter, for me, is 90 per cent a marketing tool.