Ricky Gervais Quotes

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

How plotless real life was!

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

It's been really important to me to create moments where there's a breath or moments where there's a laugh or moments where there's real life that's allowed to seep in through the cracks of whatever melodrama is happening, because that's what does happen in life.

This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.

I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day.

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

My life is pretty simple and normal.

I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work.

I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.

I come out of real life.

I do have ambition - I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine, but it's not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and travelling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false.

Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around.

I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.