Ricky Gervais Quotes

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.

I never dreamed in a million years that 'The Lord of the Rings' would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

Lillian shut her eyes briefly, as if she hoped when she opened them she would behold a world in which people never said ridiculous things.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

What I created got abominated.

I think I have a better chance at getting an Oscar before a Grammy.

And he says I have lousy timing

nice is such a rip-off.

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read?

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

If you had a dime for every excuse you made, I wouldn't have to be here right now.

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

You're always going to be mad about a bad play.

If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy.

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.