A biography for Dylan Moranhasn’t been written yet.
“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 was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.”
“I don't really think of myself as an actor.”
“If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.”
“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.”
“Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.”
“I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.”
“It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.”
“You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.”
“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.”
“Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.”
“When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.”
“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.”
“People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'" (2009)]”
“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.”
“I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.”
“The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.”
“Do your own thing. Speak in your voice.”
“A man does not know how he came by the half a pie he is holding in his hand!”
“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.”