Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. Iโve never understood it. I canโt stand to have an animal in pain.
Ricky GervaisI've worked in an office. People are sitting down doing their stuff, or pretending to do their stuff, and they're bored. I've heard a car tire screech and 30 people went to the window. That was a piece of excitement in their day, that a car might have had to stop quickly, you know. You don't need dinosaurs, you know.
Ricky GervaisA world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.
Ricky GervaisYou can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.
Ricky GervaisNext 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.
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