Ricky Gervais Quotes

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.

The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

I love working for myself. I've grown to dislike the Hollywood machine. Too much bull, disappointment, and quite frankly, untalented, mindless, and hugely disrespectful people involved in the process. I'll take carrying the load on my back, all the way up Everest if needed, to be able to steer away from it.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

I am truly independently owned and operated.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

I had always wanted to run my own show and focus solely on the writing, and that's what 'Survivor's Remorse' has been for me.

Exactly what I'm doing is what success looks like. I get to create on my own terms, on my own timeline, and I'm able to support myself and my mom and my cat comfortably.

Ultimately, I think what I want from my career is to be able to create work for myself, and there's only so much you can do as an actor in a movie.

Part of the American dream is 'I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.'

Having my own label has been nothing short of amazing!

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

I'm usually - I'm working by myself.