Ricky Gervais Art Quotations

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!

Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.

With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.

Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.

There are good and bad critics like good or bad artists. A good critic says why they didn't like it. A bad critic gives it away that they don't like you as a person. I quite like that as well, because it means that I've won.

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it: Breakfast.