Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervaisis an English comedian, actor, director, producer, writer and former pop singer and manager...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth25 June 1961
CityWhitley, England
book books-and-reading english-writer join
Why by a book when you can join a library.
children book thinking
We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.
book ideas firsts
I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, "Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book.
book library
Why buy a book when you can join a library?
expressed horror karl nice past
Karl had expressed his horror in the past at the thought of a rectal examination, and I thought this 'fear' was a nice theme,
became fault les lonely perception played press whipping
But it's the press perception of him we played with, ... Les isn't a sad, lonely man. Through no fault of his own, he became a whipping boy.
amazing audience british countries face fat homes television
We make television for a British audience and it's still amazing to me that most countries in the world have my fat face beamed into homes once a week.
bad material
You can get away with bad material if you've got charisma.
ensemble icing
The A-list celebrities were always going to be the icing on the cake. It's always been more of an ensemble piece.
applied born joke rather
He was born smart, and he can't let it go. He'd rather make a joke than listen. He's clever, but he hasn't applied it as well as some other people.
sit table
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.'
english-writer
Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.
backs hard red slapping
We were slapping each other's backs so hard we were red raw.
sale
Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already?