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I?m much bigger in Britain than I am there. I'm well-known, but my name's That Guy in America. . . . People shout: Hey ? I know you! You're That Guy..

Billy Connolly

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Billy Connolly
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 24
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here.
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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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I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline.
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Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born nowhere! It's over!
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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... wrll, it's because the national anthem is boring.
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Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.
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I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered.
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