Quotes by Dylan Moran

• One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.
• Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.
• The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
• The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.
• 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.
• 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.
• I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.
• It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
• 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.
• I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.
• Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
• I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
• I don't really think of myself as an actor.
• 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.
• I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.
• 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.
• I 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.
• 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.