I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.

I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts.

You are perfect exactly as you are. With all your flaws and problems, there's no need to change anything. All you need to change is the thought that you aren't good enough.

To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is.

Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.

Anything's possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles.

Keep grindin' boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it's dark out, the sun is shining somewhere

No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on

One thing you should know about me is I never play to lose, Always aim high and rarely obey the rules.

In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true

The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called Little Red Riding Hood.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

Ricky Gervais is a genius.