Ricky Gervais Quotes

Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

Relax. No one else knows what they’re doing either.

We are on a rock travelling around 1 of 100 billion stars. Our species is 1 of over half a billion that have ever existed. Our chances of being born are about 1 in 400 trillion. You're not special, but you are fucking lucky. Enjoy your amazing life. You'll never exist again.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.

I'd rather be no where without her than somewhere without her

Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -­- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn’t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn’t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you're bullet-proof.

Your critics want you to be as unhappy, unfulfilled and unimportant as they are. Let your happiness eat them up from inside

The best thing about being dead is that you don't know about it. It's like being stupid - it's only painful for others.

Screw it. I'll be in my Mansion soon.

There have been nearly 3000 Gods so far but only yours actually exists. The others are silly made-up nonsense.

But not yours. Yours is real.

I believe the greatest privilege in this world is to use your freedom of speech for those who have no voice.