Ricky Gervais Quotes

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.