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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.

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Billy Connolly
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 24
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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn't too nice a thing to do.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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I've never done a comedy club in my life. It's weird because I don't have the same background as most comics. I don't have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
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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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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.
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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'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.
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Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?
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Never trust anybody with only one book.
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Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.
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