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I'm one of the school of people who don't do research of the reality of the thing or the unreality of the thing. In all the movies I've done, I've never done any research.
Billy Connolly
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Billy Connolly
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 24
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Sir William Connolly
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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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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Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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I don't like the beach. I think we have no business at the beach at all, as a species. We don't belong in the sea. The sea is full of things that bite us, sting us, hurt the soles of our feet, and it's extremely cold. When are we gonna take the hint that the things that live in the sea don't like us?
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I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.
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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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The more you know the less the better.
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, Has the bus come yet?. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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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've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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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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I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
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I don't aim to offend.
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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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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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