Dylan Moran

I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers. ”

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. ”

You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat. ”

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s. ”

If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads. ”

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

Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once. ”

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. ”

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty. ”

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. ”