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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.

Billy Connolly

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Billy Connolly
Age: 82
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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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 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'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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Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don't eat anything out of a bucket.
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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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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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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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Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.
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Wisdom isn't an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn't an answer. It's a question.
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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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Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a haemorrhoid when it's on the outside of your ass?
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Never trust anybody with only one book.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. Is this yours? she asked probably said Paddy she burns everything else
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I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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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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