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.' Ricky Gervais More Quotes by Ricky Gervais More Quotes From Ricky Gervais Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals. Ricky Gervais animal believe years I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone. Ricky Gervais cottages creating want The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising. Ricky Gervais best-way criticism way I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty. Ricky Gervais poverty office firsts I've got the attention span of a child. Ricky Gervais attention-span attention children With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun. Ricky Gervais heart fun drama I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life. Ricky Gervais plans wanted When someone thanks God, I don't get offended. Ricky Gervais thanks-god thanks thank-god My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work. Ricky Gervais hero men thinking I think what makes us human is those choices - whether to tell the truth or not. Ricky Gervais telling-the-truth choices thinking It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change. Ricky Gervais fats loser play You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging. Ricky Gervais digging breathe yeah You do your own thing and you see if you survive. Ricky Gervais ifs I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight. Ricky Gervais play advice thinking I've been nominated four times, never won. And the whole world is going, `Why hasn't Winslet won one?' That's why I'm doing it. "Schindler's Bloody List," "The Pianist," Oscars coming out of their ass. Ricky Gervais oscars four world Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming! Ricky Gervais sexy clever funny That's what life is, it's the small struggles. You walk down the street for half an hour, you see half an hour of drama. You don't need convoluted plot lines. You don't need long-lost brothers. You don't need it's set on the future; it's set on the moon. Ricky Gervais brother struggle drama I'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 Gervais car office people Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits. Ricky Gervais climbing rain people Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do. Ricky Gervais ambition work jobs
