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I don't aim to offend.

Billy Connolly

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Billy Connolly
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 24
Actor
Banjoist
Comedian
Composer
Film Actor
Guitarist
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Glasgow
Scotland
Sir William Connolly
Aim
Offend

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I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
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Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.
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On George W Bush: That man sits at that desk in the White House with the button that can end the world. My father's younger than him and we don't give him the controls for the television.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.
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If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.
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I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I've found that the great moments often don't have too much to them. They're not huge, complicated events they're just magical wee moments when somebody says 'I love you' or 'You're a really good at what you do' or simply 'You're a good person'.
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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The zombie sex, I have no idea. It must be like tantric sex.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.
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I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. ... That can keep me awake for days.
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I don't think I've ever died on stage. I've had jokes that died on stage. I've told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn't know it was the end of the joke.
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The more you know the less the better.
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I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow.
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Oh aye...my Father would thrash me every now and then. He'd talk while he did it too! He'd hit me and shout, 'Have ye had enough?' Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? 'Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???'
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Try to live in a place you like.
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Don't die until you're dead.
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I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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