Quotes by Dylan Moran

About Dylan Moran:

Dylan Moran is an Irish comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his sardonic observational comedy, the UK television sitcom Black Books (which he co-wrote and starred in), and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run. Moran also appeared as one of the two lead characters in the Irish black comedy titled A Film with Me in It in 2008. Moran's most recent film is Calvary, an Irish black comedy drama film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh.
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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.

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I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself b...

Dylan Moran

When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.

Dylan Moran

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

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

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Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

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I don't really think of myself as an actor.

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If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.

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I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

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I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

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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.

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We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

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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.

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You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.

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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

The most dangerous drink is gin. You have to be really, really careful with that. And you also have to be 45, female and sitting on the stairs. Because gin isn't really a drink, it's more a mascara thinner. "Nobody likes my shoes!" "I made... I made ...

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People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'" [ (2009)]

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Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.

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I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

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I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

Dylan Moran

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

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Author Bio

  • NameDylan Moran
  • DescriptionIrish actor and comedian
  • BornNovember 3, 1971
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionActor