you have to live a life first

 

Ricky Gervais: "Why didn't I do this earlier?"

Wife Jane:        "Because [before you were 41] you wouldn't have been any good at it."

 

F***ing Hell

"Stand up is arguing with yourself. It's chess against yourself."
- Ricky Gervais [born 1961]

"two idiots eat hot food"

on idiocy

David Bowie - Little Fat Man (with Ricky Gervais) from Zenith on Vimeo.

sensitivity is overrated

"Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right."
- Ricky Gervais

on atheism

"If you burned all the religious texts, they would be gone forever. But if you burned all the science texts, all the principles would eventually be rediscovered again."
- Ricky Gervais 

routine

"I work from 11am to 3pm Then I go to the gym."
- Ricky Gervais

genuine aid

"Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right."
- Ricky Gervais

a camel is a horse designed by committee

"A vision is more perfect than committee."
- Ricky Gervais [born 1961]

atheist comedian

rehabilitated

"My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. Incredible man. Incarcerated for twenty-five years. He was released in 1990. He's been out about eighteen years now and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work."

- Ricky Gervais [born 1961]

An earlier reference to Nelson Mandela here.