Quotes by Dylan Moran

“I have no qualifications to do anything else and there werent any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought Id give that a twist.”

“If I hadnt done this I might have ended up digging the roads.”

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

“But when you do a film, you have to be prepared to learn a whole different menu.”

“Id never written a sitcom before.”

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

“I myself have been to book auctions.”

“Youre doing your own thing if youre doing stand-up, obviously, you are the show.”

“I also think it helps that Black Books has a fusty and careworn feel - it could be the 1950s, it could be the 1930s.”

“I never look at the internet.”

“One thing thats coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.”

“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 dont think Id be very good at it.”

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

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

“I never thought, I want to do films.”

“The truth is that Im constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.”

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

“I dont really think of myself as an actor.”

“I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.”

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