Quote

Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

Ricky Gervais

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ricky Gervais
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 25
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Musician
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Ricky Dene Gervais
Never
Fail
Failure
Failing
Afraid
Building
Another
Trying
Block
Something
Useful

More quotes by Ricky Gervais

Image
Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. Some people are offended by mixed marriage, gay people, atheism. So what? F*** 'em.
Ricky Gervais
Image
I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with The Simpsons... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.
Ricky Gervais
Image
When someone thanks God, I don't get offended.
Ricky Gervais
Image
That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.
Ricky Gervais
Image
Do this or you’ll burn in hell.
Ricky Gervais
Image
I think everyone has the ability to be loved.
Ricky Gervais
Image
Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. Someone being serious or angry might be funny. If you get angry, the first thing I want to do is laugh because I don't know why you're getting that angry. Pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.
Ricky Gervais
Image
I want to get all the nations of the world together, it doesn't matter what colour or creed, and I want to sit them down and say: Guys, The Office is still available on DVD.
Ricky Gervais
Image
I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.
Ricky Gervais
Image
I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.
Ricky Gervais
Image
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
Ricky Gervais
Image
I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.
Ricky Gervais
Image
If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.
Ricky Gervais
Image
Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.
Ricky Gervais
Image
Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.
Ricky Gervais
Image
It breaks your heart when you throw something away, but it's what left that counts. It's like worrying about the bits of rock you have knocked off in order to make a beautiful statue. You've wasted half the rock, yeah, but it's the Venus di Milo!
Ricky Gervais
Image
America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.
Ricky Gervais
Image
Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.
Ricky Gervais
Image
I think what makes us human is those choices - whether to tell the truth or not.
Ricky Gervais
Image
I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.
Ricky Gervais