Dylan Moran Quotes

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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• If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Business
  • City
  • Identity

• Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Always

• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'

  

  Sage Stallone
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Me
  • Story
  • View

• One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Good
  • Things
  • Really

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Start

• They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Never
  • Going
  • Before

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Present
  • Latin

• Love prefers twilight to daylight.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Twilight

• When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Me
  • Show
  • Bring

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Way

• I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

  

  Andres Serrano
  • Work
  • Religious

• I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

  

  Big Sean
  • People

• My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Women
  • Society

• You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Family
  • Control

• 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
  • Trying
  • Moving