"I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target."
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Dylan Moran quotes (page 5 of 10)
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"I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature."
"I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme."
"I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It's partly just the way I talk - I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I'm your 150-year-old grandmother."
"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."
"I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss."
"Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you."
"Its not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today… and there are other pressures."
"Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once."
"Beer must be made by food companies. It makes you wander the streets at 3 am looking for things to eat. "What's that, is it moving, get it!! It's a nun! Fry her!! Fry her!""
"What's the weather like? ... It's fierce mild!"
"All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive"
"I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart."
"I'll work for whoever wants to hire me. Even the jewelry channel."
"We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy."
"Look at his face. I bet his cornflakes try to crawl out of the bowl."
"I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies."
"I do pauses, pauses work for me"
"You're never going to go. Why would you go? It's a disgusting place. It's always wet even when it's dry. There's nothing there. Farmers aren't really people, you know this. They're just necessary, we need somebody to kill cows."
"I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape."