Quotes from Ricky Gervais

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

I've got re-addicted to normal people, which is the loveliest thing to write about.

If you try to please everyone you'll please no one.

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

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

Good People Do Things For Other People. That's It. The End.

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: 'Do this or you'll burn in hell.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it 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.'