318 Quotes by Dylan Moran

I’d be hard-pressed to think of anybody who’s made me laugh, who’s funny, but who’s also relentlessly positive.

People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like ‘be realistic.’

There’s always a host of voices you’re inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He’s one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it’s quite theatrical.

You can’t please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won’t please anyone, least of all yourself.

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

What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it’s generally my fault and not theirs.

Tequila? It’s not even a drink. It’s a way for having the cops around without using a phone.

Home gigs can be hard because it’s an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I’m doing this job which is not quite acting – part of it is me, part performance. You’re presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.