Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
BILLY CONNOLLYMy parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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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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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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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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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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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 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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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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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.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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