Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
BILLY CONNOLLYI 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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.
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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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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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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.
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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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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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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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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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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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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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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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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