Dylan Moran's Quotes
Born: 1971-11-03
Profession: Comedian
Nation: Irish
Biography of Dylan Moran
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.
Tags: Anybody, Try, WomenThe truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.
Tags: Job, Ordinary, TruthI'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
Tags: Actually, Division, FamousIn the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.
Tags: Away, Inside, WaysBlack Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
Tags: Black, Books, OldIt's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
Tags: Book, Everyone, TrueI 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.
Tags: Good, Help, WorkI don't really think of myself as an actor.
Tags: ActorI don't want to do the same thing over and over again.
Tags: AgainI thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.
Tags: Good, Though, ThoughtOne thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.
Tags: Black, Books, ComingShowing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.
Tags: Necessary, Off, ValuableThe characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
Tags: Character, Life, RealYeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.
Tags: Deal, Time, YeahYou achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
Tags: Achieve, Jokes, MakingI 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.
Tags: Else, Give, ThoughtYou 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.
Tags: Service, Try, While