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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.

Billy Connolly

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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Country Patronishing Region Weather
Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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Fraudulence People Pomposity Sometimes Thinking Water
I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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Country Days Reinvents Two
Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Comedy Euthanasia Fame
I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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Clothing Hate Rain Sexy
Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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Election Political Vote
I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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Friendship Glasgow Hands Suits
I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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Acting Consuming Drawing Stuff
I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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Circuit Different Hecklers Syllable Tickets
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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Become Changing Clothes Life Successful
I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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Fog Singer Voice
I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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Found People Scared
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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Funny Someone Waitin Witty
I’d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I’ve been learning more about it as I’ve been doing interviews. I
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Consciously Home Intention Numbers People
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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Auditorium Fine Line Offened Tread
Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
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Bit Fun Jobs Laugh Occupation

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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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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