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" 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. "

Dylan Moran

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" I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature. "

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

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Recognition

Low

" I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets. "

" 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. "

Dylan Moran

Family

Job

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.' "

" I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated. "

" America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in. "

" I don't want to do the same thing over and over again. "

" I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir. "

Dylan Moran

Giving

Writer

" I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know? "

Dylan Moran

System

Political

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

Dylan Moran

Inside

Same

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

" 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. "

" I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you. "

" I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity. "

" Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year. "

Dylan Moran

Time Goes By

Time

" 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. "

" You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat. "

Dylan Moran

Learn

Anything

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

" I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it. "

" I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine. "

" I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s. "

" One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing. "

Dylan Moran

One Thing

You

" I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed. "