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Dylan Moran Quotes
Dylan Moran
Irish
Comedian
Born:
Nov 3
,
1971
Me
People
Think
Time
Try
You
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Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway.
Dylan Moran
Me
People
Walk
Some People
Eye
Some
Something
Small
Poking
Like
Around
Very
Children
Anyway
Aware
Grumpy
Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.
Dylan Moran
People
Big
Unless
Spend
Give
Hours
House
Talking
Female
Leaving
Very
Irish
Five
Irish People
Person
Doorway
Little
Then
I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.
Dylan Moran
Alone
You
Trust
Key
Fear
Losing
Independent
Out
Facility
Throw
Stuff
Perilous
Loss
Human
Decision-Making
Might
Basic
I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
Dylan Moran
Time
You
Yourself
Think
Parody
Lot
Just
One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.
Dylan Moran
You
Black
Books
One Thing
Coming
Lot
Up
Appear
Thing
Grumpy
Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.
Dylan Moran
Time
Me
Year
Every
More
Bewildered
Passing
Time Goes By
Goes
Gets
Maybe
Just
Unfathomable
Modernity
I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.
Dylan Moran
You
People
Big
Nationalism
To Be Honest
Think
About
Except
Dead
Pile
Yeah
Up
Irish
Get
Gets
Soapbox
Anywhere
Really
Bodies
Near
Need
Honest
A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.
Dylan Moran
Generation
People
Men
Mad
Mad Men
Post-War
John
More
Mention
Like
Read
Around
Always
Lot
Up
Times
American
Modern
Fiction
Manhattan
Modern Times
Centers
Who
Growing
Growing Up
I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.
Dylan Moran
Trousers
Like
Quite
Fancy
The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.
Dylan Moran
Trend
Stage
Bound
Get
Sitcoms
Now
Away
You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.
Dylan Moran
You
Happy
Learn
Go
Very
Going
Anything
Flat
Prepared
America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.
Dylan Moran
Culture
People
Living
Incredible
Anchored
Immigrants
Kind
Some
Mosaic
Well
America
Want
Really
I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off.
Dylan Moran
You
Natural
Complicated
Simple
Drive
Sense
Show Off
Way
Kids
Some
Drive-In
Football
How
Off
Very
Same
Impulse
Just
Depends
Want
Wanted
Much
Show
Play
Play Football
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
Dylan Moran
Old
Black
Own
Think
Books
Way
More
Because
Traditional
Sitcom
Quite
Format
Which
Theatrical
Old-Fashioned
Works
I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.
Dylan Moran
Good
Thought
Think
Though
Very
Office
Sitcom
Just
Programme
I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.
Dylan Moran
You
Thought
Else
Give
Had
Qualifications
Were
Any
Formal
Anything
Anything Else
Forms
Fill
Twist
Application
You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.
Dylan Moran
Service
Me
You
Try
Those
Out
Neither
Various
Had
Drove
Foreign
Foreign Service
Up
While
Then
Growing
Growing Up
Things
When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.
Dylan Moran
Writing
Mind
Walks
Other
Enough
Though
Runs
Write
Like
Talk
Well
Fishing
Up
Times
Going
Flies
Keep
Fast
Things
Speech
I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.
Dylan Moran
Teacher
Future
Art
Challenges
Panel
Photographer
Something
Like
Chef
Always
Get
Roles
Want
Really
Games
Play
What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.
Dylan Moran
Fault
Try
Every
Assume
Something
Generally
Wrong
Audience
Intelligent
Goes
Listen
Which
Prefer
Who
You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly.
Dylan Moran
Time
Best
Good
You
People
Comedy
Matter
Good Time
Assume
Way
Out
Pretty
Having
Having A Good Time
Could
Know
Most
Talking
Audience
Quickly
Intelligent
Get
Going
Whether
Should
Ever
I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.
Dylan Moran
Me
Else
Draw
Around
Understand
Target
Trying
Just
Anyone
Anyone Else
Moving
Much
Really
When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves.
Dylan Moran
Eyes
Men
Hair
Young
Politicians
Trees
Latin
Ancient
No Idea
Had
Wrong
Idea
Opening
Like
Looked
How
Were
Walking
Blowing
Door
Themselves
Teachers
Present
I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.
Dylan Moran
You
Hair
Stupid
Shoes
Teenage
Teenage Years
Bit
Wear
Wearing
Records
Throw
Am
Years
Lot
Did
Eggs
Quite
Quite A Bit
Your
Buying
Basket
It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.
Dylan Moran
Character
People
Stage
Says
About
Something
Terrible
Go
Up
Get
Front
Really
Need
I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.
Dylan Moran
Best
You
People
Try
Job
Whatever
Other
Analyse
Critic
Would
Never
Know
Make
Material
Leave
Hand
Get
Just
Want
Available
Really
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