Ricky Gervais Quotes

Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.

Ricky Gervais

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 25, 1961

Topics

MeMoreStageEducatedAwareEven

I went to school for culinary arts. I love to cook. That's a talent not a lot of people know about.

Jessie Usher

LoveSchoolTalentPeopleKnowArts

Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again.

Jill Soloway

WalkJobFunPeopleYouMentor

My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.

Jill Scott

MotherArtMeGeniusYouMuseum

In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.

John Strachan

GreatIgnoranceGrowing UpGrowing

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Tom Robbins

IntelligenceBrainLittleToyElse

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

Robert Wyatt

CultureYouthWorldFeelThings

I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors I supposedly had and what I was studying.

Mircea Monroe

CollegeActingLyingStudyingUp

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

Mischa Barton

TruthPeopleMeTruth IsFaceKind

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Milton Berle

HumorVacationLaughterInstant

I love being world champion.

Lizzie Armitstead

LoveWorldChampionBeingI Love

China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelt's proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.

Chiang Kai-shek

FaithIndependenceFightingPresident

I succeeded at venture capital because, for years, I rarely thought about or spent time on anything else. Anything less than that unmitigated full commitment leaves me feeling frustrated and ineffective.

Chris Sacca

TimeCommitmentMeThoughtFeeling

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