Dylan Moran Quotes

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• In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.
• People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'
• Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
• Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once.
• It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
• You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
• 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…
• Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'
• Do your own thing. Speak in your voice.
• I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.
• I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?
• I don't really think of myself as an actor.
• I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.
• I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.
• 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.
• I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving…
• If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.
• If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.
• Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.
• Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

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