Dylan Moran Quotes


"Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20."
- Dylan Moran
"The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Life, People, Character, Witty)

"The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Now)

"The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Truth, Job)

"You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Jokes, Realism)

"Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Time, Being)

"We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Joy, Writing)

"I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Thought, Office)

"It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Planning)

"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
(Related: Growing up, Service)

"I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me."
- 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."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Books, Old)

"I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Famous)

"I don't really think of myself as an actor."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Actor)

"I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Women, Instinct, Will)

"I don't want to do the same thing over and over again."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Want)

"I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Time)

"I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Work, Thought, Day, Help, Want)

"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
(Related: Thought)

"In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways."
- Dylan Moran
"If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads."
- Dylan Moran