Ricky Gervais Quotes

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

It's fun to be able to have a fun palate, and the way I say that, you think about it and it sounds funny, but it's true.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

I love to write what I see and what I do and what I experience, and I like to see if people can relate to that. I don't know if I am as good at making up a story in my head that has no truth to it, so that is a challenge for me.

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

You're going to be way happier doing what you actually love and finding other people that love the same thing than doing something that other people love so you're just cooler and you have cool friends.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn't get so dark and deep.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

Comedy is just honesty. Whether things are going well or bad.

Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

I'm a little more goofy than I think people give me credit for. I like to have fun. I like to have a good time. People don't always get to see that.

What I like about stand-up is, it's truthful. I'm not up there trying to get laid or look cool. I'm up there because I really love it, and it makes people happier.

To be rather than to seem.

Who are you? Be it. What do you love to do? Do it. Who do you love? Love them. The result: a fulfilling life.

Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.