Doyle, Roddy Filmography

• Paul Quarrington: Life in Music (2010)
• New Boy (2007)
• The Commitments: Looking Back (2004)
• Dublin Soul: The Working Class and the Changing Face of Dublin (2004)
• When Brendan Met Trudy (2000)
• When Brendan Met Trudy (2000)
• Two Lives: Hell for Leather (1999)
• The Van (1996)
• The Van (1996)
• The Van (1996)
• The Snapper (1993)
• The Snapper (1993)
• The Commitments (1991)
• The Commitments (1991)
• The Making of Alan Parker's Film 'The Commitments' (1991)

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Right - All
• 3rd Wheel - Tim Hawkins
• Radio Dial - George Carlin
• Red Yellow - Treat Her Right
• Radio Dial - Black Unicorn
• Right Wheel - Tremoloes

Today she made the pain stop
With the sound of her voice
I've learned to live with doubt
And I've learned to live without
But not by choice
I've had enough sad memories
To last me all my life
I've learned to live with doubt
And I've learned to live without
But not this time
I was walking wounded
I said, "Never again"
She makes it easy
She's my best friend, my best friend
She's right
I look in her eyes
I like what I find
I've learned to live with doubt
And I've learned to live without
But not this time
We speak the same anguish
When we make love she smiles
I've learned to live with doubt
And I've learned to live without
But not this time
I was walking wounded
I said, "Never again"
She makes it so easy
She's my best friend, my best friend
She's right
I was walking wounded
I said, "Never again"
She makes me happy
To be her best friend
She says, she's my best friend

My girlfriend dumped my five days ago
you're my favorite couple and I wanted you to know
yeah two is company, three is a crowd
but Friday night's comin up and I heard you're goin out
I've been down since she been gone
and If you don't mind I'd like to tag along and be a
Chorus:
Third Wheel
would it be all right
I ain't got nothin' going
can i hang with ya all night
(third wheel)
don't make me stay home
I know you want to be together
but I don't want to be alone
we can go walkin and look at the moon
or get a hot fudge sundae with an extra spoon
you can park the car, run your fingers through her hair
i'll be in the backseat you won't even know i'm there
how about the Cheescake Factory, just you, and her, and me
I'm gonna be a
Chorus:
Third wheel
Wouldn't it be great?
don't mind me carry on with your date
(third wheel)
don't let me stay home
I know you want to be together
but I don't want to be alone
let's go shopping, give me the keys
or an awkward picnic in a valley of trees
We can stay in and watch DVDs
you can play Twister and I can referee
i'm gonna be a
Chorus:
Third wheel
you can act like i ain't irratating you
(third wheel)
I'll make myself at home
thanks to you two i'll never be alone
never be alone

We have also met on the AM radio dial. Especially in the middle of it. On the large radios, all of the zeroes are there. 700 (makes 'radio tuning' noises)..800. On small radios it says 6...Con o rad...7,8,9,10,11,... The big radios (more 'radio tuning' noises). But all of them, those stations between 600 and 800 were always widely spaced apart (more 'radio tuning' noises)...always widely spaced and they had announcers (applause)..well modulated speaking voices, they always had serious subject matter. In fact, they never had music. There's no music between 600 and 900 on the radio. It's all talking, man. The only music you hear is the occasional national advertising jingle. (more 'radio tuning' noises)
You get down past..you get towards 600 (more 'radio tuning' noises) you get down to the hopelessness...of 54! And wonder why it ends there. What kind of good stuff are we missing on 420? Nowhere to go but up..(more 'radio tuning' noises growing faster and higher ending with very fast mock Spanish)

Yeah there's something I like about this time of year
There's a chill in the air at night but the warm days are still here
Should have told me something when I gave the ride down town
And you pushed my hand away and made me feel like a clown
I cried "Red Yellow, Black and Blue
What's good for you is good for me too"
Saw an ad in the paper one day someone looking for a painter
Someone wanted all their colors changed
So I took that job and I learned to paint and I tried to learn from my mistakes.
I cried "Red Yellow, Black and Blue
What's good for you is good for me too"
Saw a sign in the window one day for those who pray
You can buy a candle each for every kind of saint
Then a crack in the ground swallowed me up yeah swallowed me whole
When I crawled back out, lit up a candle and I did it all for you
I cried "Red Yellow, Black and Blue
What's good for you is good for me too"
I cried "Red Yellow, Black and Blue

I was just a boy with his heart on his sleeve
Got caught up in a girl with a head full of steam
My eyes were blind to what my heart didn't want them to see
My ears fell deaf at the advice of a friend
That girl is crazy, wound up tight in the head
But then our lips collided now her thumb is sliding down on me
I've been screaming at the radio dial
To put a record on and make me smile
'Cause she don't love me anymore
There she goes again off shouting accusations
Words I've heard so much they must be automated
I'm thinking that she means them this time
I gave her all my love and all of my devotion
All I got from here was thoughtless, fake emotion
But I'm hoping that she means it this time
I've been screaming at the radio dial
To put a record on and make me smile
'Cause she don't love me anymore
We went out together, wouldn't call it a date
She got bent out of shape when I offered to pay
Then started towing the line about how she'd like to be my friend
I haven't ever doubled up on mistakes
There ain't no coming back in through the cracks a broken heart makes
I've seeled them up as best as I can
I've been screaming at the radio dial
To put a record on and make me smile
'Cause she don't love me anymore
I've been singing through the radio dial
It's a song I wrote to make you cry

If you get a right wheel
Left hammer raw deal
Ev'rything is upside down.
Tie him in a knot
Ev'rything you've got now
Kick him in the dusty ground:
Give it a try
Let it go by by by by by
Give it a try
Let it go by by by by by.
Marriage on the rocks
d'pends
Who said what then
Nobody remember why;
Go before a counsel
Wouldn't let her down feel
Shakin' in your old school tie:
Give it a try...
Horses on the run win
Thirty three to one and
Never put a penny on;
Smiling on the bookie
Tell him that he should be
Better luck the next time son:

Famous quotes by Roddy Doyle:

"Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it."

"It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time."

"I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk."

"If you're a writer in Dublin and you write a snatch of dialogue, everyone thinks you lifted it from Joyce. The whole idea that he owns language as it is spoken in Dublin is a nonsense. He didn't invent the Dublin accent. It's as if you're encroaching on his area or it's a given that he's on your shoulder. It gets on my nerves."

"When you are writing for fiction everything is in each word and each individual word is a literary decision, whereas if you are writing for the screen and you have a character walking into a room it is because she walks into the room: it doesn't matter if it isn't glorious literature."

"Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day."

"My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do."

"If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far."

"Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child."

"I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand."

"I like naming characters."

"When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did."

"Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing."

"I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires."

"My parents were sixty years married."

"No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words."

"I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican."

"When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'"

"When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe."

"When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea."