Ricky Gervais Quotes

I saw an Emmy ad that AMC took out with all the 'Breaking Bad' nominees' photos, and there's my picture from the show. It's like World's Ugliest Man - I'm an automatic winner in that category.

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find offensive.

I'll never get a Humanitas Award, but I'll have fun.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.

If you go on the Internet and type in 'Lee Ryan one liners,' I think I'm on par with Gandhi.

You have to have a sense of humor about all of it - the Emmys and politics and everything.

There's not many comedy characters that make me laugh as much as The Rock does; it's nice to have a big muscly guy being funny and stupid.

I have never won a single award - National or Filmfare - and I just hope they don't give me a Lifetime Achievement Award because I won't accept it.

I once hosted the Butcher Shop of the Year Awards. There's nothing like performing to the personification of the phrase a 'sausage fest' to hammer home how you've hit the big time.

When I'm joking around, I'll say I'm a pop star, because it's silly.

People are like, 'How did you get so funny?' And I'm like, 'Wait, am I funny?'

I think what's hysterically funny is a guy who sets himself up as the most confident, everything's-perfect, know-it-all, things-are-swell human being and then gets wiped out every time.

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.