Dylan Moran Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The characters can’t be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

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

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

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

In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

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

I’m actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

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

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

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.