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" I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like that for everybody. I've heard Newt Gingrich has his own as well. "
Dylan Moran
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" I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off. "
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" People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.' "
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" I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself. "
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" Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time. "
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" I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything. "
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" I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me. "
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" 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. "
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" A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention. "
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Men
Mad
" I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence. "
Dylan Moran
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" I don't really think of myself as an actor. "
Dylan Moran
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" Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical. "
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Way
" Do your own thing. Speak in your voice. "
Dylan Moran
Voice
Your
Own
" You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly. "
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" You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic. "
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" I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme. "
Dylan Moran
Office
Very
Thought
" America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of. "
Dylan Moran
Work
Think
Law
" I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything. "
Dylan Moran
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Famous
Time
" I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me. "
Dylan Moran
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Me
" 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. "
Dylan Moran
History
America
American
" If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads. "
Dylan Moran
Might
Roads
Up
" Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport. "
Dylan Moran
People
Fun
Talking
" When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves. "
Dylan Moran
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" 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. "
Dylan Moran
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" I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it. "
Dylan Moran
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" It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people. "
Dylan Moran
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" 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. "
Dylan Moran
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" I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know? "
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Political
Go
" 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. "
Dylan Moran
Over
Change
Doing
" I don't want to do the same thing over and over again. "
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Over
Want
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" I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material. "
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