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Billy Connolly
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 24
Actor
Banjoist
Comedian
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Guitarist
Screenwriter
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Stage Actor
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Glasgow
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For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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I just believe in the movie. I don't care what the book was like. I don't care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I've got.
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I've been very lucky because I've always had movies to do. So if I got bored between shows a movie would turn up.
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Don't die until you're dead.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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And then there was my mate who'd just been fitted with a brand new hearing aid. It's the best in the world, he said. What type is it?, I asked and he said ten past twelve.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I'm desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I'm going back, but I'm not. I'd rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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The more you know the less the better.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.
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Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question.
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I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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