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Dylan Moran
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 3
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Dylan William Moran
Elastic
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I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.
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Look at his face. I bet his cornflakes try to crawl out of the bowl.
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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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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.
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I've lived in the UK for longer than I lived in Ireland. I'm not worried about myself, but it's ridiculous for youngsters.
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Then you get these articles about how unhealthy life is in the city. You know mobile phone tumours - far more likely in the city. Well you know what, so is everything else! Including sex, coffee and conversation.
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What are children anyway? Midget drunks. They greet you in the morning by kneeing you in the face and talking gibberish. They can't even walk straight.
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I'll work for whoever wants to hire me. Even the jewelry channel.
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I do pauses, pauses work for me
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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.
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I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
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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.
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Why do I even dare to think I could dream I could imagine I could hope?!
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I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.
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You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...
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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.
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You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.
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Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.
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When did you ever hear of a child not in need? 'Oh that's enough jam tart for me, I'll just go now and clean the toilets.'
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In my personal life, my family makes me laugh more than anybody I think that is the same for everybody. I certainly hope it is.
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