Dylan Moran Quotes

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'

A lot of times you can fall into the trap of expecting too much before things actually happen.

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

It is hard that people don't just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life.

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

I'm not in the business of holding people's hands after I've expressed to them my needs numerous times.

You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built in a shorter time.

There's little money in theatre.

I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.

There will always be voices that basically say: Unless it's the perfect solution, we want no solution. That is unrealistic.

We can't do the job in a half hour ... Perhaps we're misleading people.

I pass my days in a state of exasperation. First, with the fools who do not want any of the things that ought to be done, and second, with the equally obnoxious fools who insist upon so much that they cannot get anything done.

A number of former Wells Fargo employees have described their work environment characterized by intense pressure to meet aggressive and unrealistic sales goals. In a 2010 letter to shareholders, Mr. Stumpf wrote that Wells Fargo's goal was eight products per customer because eight rhymed with great.