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I've been a poser for f--ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.

Billy Connolly

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Billy Connolly
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 24
Actor
Banjoist
Comedian
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Film Actor
Guitarist
Screenwriter
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Stage Actor
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Glasgow
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Sir William Connolly
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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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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 think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline.
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What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they expect to find?
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When people say it's always the last place you look. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?
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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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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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And then there was my mate who'd just been fitted with a brand new hearing aid. It's the best in the world, he said. What type is it?, I asked and he said ten past twelve.
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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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A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you!
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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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 set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.
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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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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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