Ricky Gervais Quotes: Wit, Wisdom and Humor
The best advice I’ve ever received is, ‘No one else knows what they’re doing either.’
Remember, when someone says ‘you’ve changed’, it usually means you’ve stopped living your life their way.
Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right.
Mondays are fine. It’s your life that sucks.
I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.
If you spend your days doing what you love, it is impossible to fail.
If you don’t know, just say you don’t know. Don’t start making shit up.
You should bring something into the world that wasn’t in the world before. It doesn’t matter what that 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.’
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.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
The only time I worked out was when I thought I could be an action hero. But then I realized, I didn?t need to do the splits to make people laugh.
Being on the edge isn?t as safe, but the view is better.
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they’re rarely the same.
There is 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.
Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right.
The best advice I’ve ever received is, ‘No one else knows what they’re doing either.’
Being on the edge isn?t as safe, but the view is better.
We shouldn’t even need the word ‘atheism’. If people didn’t invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn’t have to deny them.
Remember, when someone says ‘you’ve changed’, it usually means ‘you’ve stopped living your life their way.’
Beliefs do not change facts. Facts, if one is rational, should change beliefs.
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.
The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.
You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
The best advice I’ve ever received is, ‘No one else knows what they’re doing either.’
Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right.
Remember, when someone says ‘you’ve changed,’ it usually means you?ve stopped living your life their way.
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.
The fact that there’s a highway to hell and only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic.
If you spend your days doing what you love, it is impossible to fail.
Happiness is not something you can find, earn or borrow. It is something intrinsic and always within reach. It’s inside all of us.
We need to stop teaching children they’re special and unique. Just because they’re younger or smaller, doesn’t mean they’re any less stupid.
I don’t believe in the afterlife. I believe in the now.
Being on the edge isn’t as safe, but the view is better.
Mondays are fine. It’s your life that sucks.
You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
Beliefs do not change facts. Facts, if one is rational, should change belief.
Money doesn’t brings you happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Ferrari.
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they’re very rarely the same.
Life’s too short to worry about the things that you can live without.
You should bring something into the world that wasn’t in the world before. It doesn’t matter what that 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.’