Quotes by Ricky Gervais

Ricky Dene Gervais is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, and singer. Gervais worked initially in the music industry, attempting a career as a pop star in the 1980s as the singer of the new wave act Seona Dancing and working as the manager of the then-unknown band Suede before turning to comedy. Gervais appeared on The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4 between 1998 and 2000.

Ricky Gervais belongs to the following category: Comedy

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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.

Atheism, Santa Claus, HölleRicky Gervais
 
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Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.

CynicismRicky Gervais
 
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Remember, if you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing.

SinRicky Gervais
 
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Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

FoolishnessRicky Gervais
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Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right!

Cancel CultureRicky Gervais
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You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

Hölle, Being niceRicky Gervais
 
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People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Humor & ComedyRicky Gervais
 
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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.

AtheismRicky Gervais
 
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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.

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

Opinions, FactsRicky Gervais
 
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If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?

AtheismRicky Gervais
 
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Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

ReligionRicky Gervais
 
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Why buy a book when you can join a library?

LibrariesRicky Gervais
 
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Same-sex marriage isn't a gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.

Homosexuality & LGBTQ+Ricky Gervais
 
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Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.

MondayRicky Gervais
 
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Famous people are above the law.

FameRicky Gervais
 
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I've never been insulted by hateful Satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.

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

Depression, CancerRicky Gervais
 
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I think it's important to hold a mirror up to society and yourself.

MirrorsRicky Gervais
 
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Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the tests would be the same result.

ScienceRicky Gervais
 
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Imagine if you carried on believing in Santa and the tooth fairy into adulthood. And even killed and started wars over it. Imagine that.

ReligionRicky Gervais
 
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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.

AtheismRicky Gervais
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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'.

Great WorksRicky Gervais
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