Dylan Moran Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.”

“The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.”

“You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.”

“Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.”

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

“The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.”

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

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

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

“If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.”