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" The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty. "
Dylan Moran
Real
Character
Real Life
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" 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. "
Dylan Moran
Living
Kind
Culture
" I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef. "
Dylan Moran
Teacher
Future
Chef
" I don't really think of myself as an actor. "
Dylan Moran
Myself
Think
Really
" 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. "
Dylan Moran
Looks
Women
Will
" I'm organised in some ways, but not in others. "
Dylan Moran
Organised
Some
Others
" Do your own thing. Speak in your voice. "
Dylan Moran
Voice
Your
Own
" 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. "
Dylan Moran
Yourself
Think
Failure
" You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic. "
Dylan Moran
Through
Achieve
Realism
" 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. "
Dylan Moran
Comedy
Work
See
" Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20. "
Dylan Moran
Me
Valuable
Activity
" Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once. "
Dylan Moran
Class
Once
Therapy
" When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing. "
Dylan Moran
Speech
Enough
Fishing
" Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time. "
Dylan Moran
Time
Long
Long Time
" As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with. "
Dylan Moran
Grow
People
Green
" 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
You
Formal
Give
" What is universal can be surprising. Over time you find the kind of stuff which has people thinking 'That is just something that occurred to me... there's something wrong with me', is in fact stuff that is universal. "
Dylan Moran
Thinking
Find
Time
" Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written. "
Dylan Moran
Look
Soon
You
" 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. "
Dylan Moran
Losing
You
Alone
" I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me. "
Dylan Moran
Recognition
Me
Low
" I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s. "
Dylan Moran
Famous
Division
About
" 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
Go
" Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't. "
Dylan Moran
Year
Round
Sensible
" 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. "
Dylan Moran
Audience
Who
Intelligent
" 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
" You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way. "
Dylan Moran
Innocent
Giving
Walk
" It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book. "
Dylan Moran
Speak
Planning
Doing
" Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical. "
Dylan Moran
Think
More
Way
" I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.' "
Dylan Moran
You
Career
Life
" I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself. "
Dylan Moran
Just
Think
Time
" 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