Doyle, Roddy Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Skin in the Game

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Paul Quarrington: Life in Music

  2010, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen New Boy

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Dublin Soul: The Working Class and the Changing Face of Dublin

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Commitments: Looking Back

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen When Brendan Met Trudy

  2000, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen When Brendan Met Trudy

  2000, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Two Lives: Hell for Leather

  1999, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Van

  1996, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Van

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Van

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?

  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Snapper

  1993, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Snapper

  1993, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Making of Alan Parker's Film 'The Commitments'

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself - Author
• Play in Full Screen The Commitments

  1991, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Commitments

  1991, role: writer

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."

Roddy Doyle