Ricky Gervais Quotes

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

In earnest, my dear brother, I am sorry for you from the bottom of my soul. Take my advice, and turn Huron; for I see plainly a vast difference between your condition and mine. I am master of my own body, I have the absolute disposal of myself, I do what I please.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

We're allowed as adults to create a life that we like. Kids don't have that freedom.

The fact that I am able to live a life and act and to do all of those things and support myself and my family is a gift.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

I am in the fortunate-enough position where I can be picky.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

I live the life I want to lead.

Hey, I'm not rich, but I'm lucky. I get to do what I want to do. That's not an easy thing to do in this country.

I have the luck to choose what to do in my life.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

If I want to stay at home watching movies, I do that. If I want to take my bike out and go on a one-month holiday, I do that. To do all these things, it's first of all important for me to realise that I need to live my life.

I've kind of lived the same lifestyle I've had since I was a little kid. Basically, working out and hanging out with my friends and competing. I feel like a really lucky guy. I haven't had to do anything I don't want to do in life, and that's not the case with everyone.

I really don't want to encourage young people to think that life is about money only. Life is about being able to give yourself choice.

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.

Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.

I'm not going to tell people how to live their life and I surely wouldn't tell people my life is the way you should be living. People get to choose what they do want to do with their life and I appreciated that.

The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.