That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.
Ricky GervaisSome [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.
Ricky GervaisAmerica champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.
Ricky GervaisI think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.
Ricky Gervais