Feel Quotes

I don't really think of myself as an actor.

Dylan Moran

Tags: Think Really Myself

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

Dylan Moran

Tags: Want Thing Over

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

Dylan Moran

Tags: Writing Both Joy

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

Dylan Moran

Tags: You Look Mind

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

Dylan Moran

Tags: Funny Positive Me

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

Tags: You Very Go

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

Dylan Moran

Tags: You Because Then

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

Dylan Moran

Tags: Me Things Way

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

Dylan Moran

Tags: Me Just Really

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

Tags: People About Get

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

Tags: Women Like Think

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

Tags: Change You Really

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

Tags: Who Something Which

Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway.

Dylan Moran

Tags: People Me Like

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

Tags: Fear Alone Trust

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

Tags: Future Teacher Like

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

Tags: Work Get Out

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

Tags: Time You People

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

Tags: Time Work Famous

There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.

Dylan Moran

Tags: You Always Love

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.

Dylan Moran

Tags: Best You People

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

Tags: Men You People

I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

Dylan Moran

Tags: You People About

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

Tags: Good Failure You

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

Dylan Moran

Tags: Time Money Me

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

Tags: Work People Think

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

Tags: You About Who

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

Tags: People Me Because

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.

Dylan Moran

Tags: You People Like

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.

Dylan Moran

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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

Tags: You People Up