Dylan Moran Quotes

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Dylan Moran

Profession : Comedian

Birth : November 3, 1971

I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs.

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The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

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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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I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

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You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

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

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One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

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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.

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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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Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.

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

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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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I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

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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.

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

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The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

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It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

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You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

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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, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.

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