Dylan Moran Quotes

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• The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.
• The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.
• We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.
• 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…
• As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what…
• Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing…
• I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am…
• 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…
• I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like...…
• I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation…
• I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and…
• 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 wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted…
• I wouldn't be in a huge hurry to go back to Kansas. It was just bizarre. There's a lot of very, very heavy set people…
• I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like that for everybody. I've heard Newt Gingrich has his…
• 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…
• I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether…
• If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material,…
• 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…
• Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of…

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