There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
BILLY CONNOLLYFor 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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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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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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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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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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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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The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you’re a zombie. And you’re talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.
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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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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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