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Billy Connolly

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
When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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Acting Hell Real
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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Coffee Forehead Lunch Somebody Talking Zombie
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
A fart is just your arse applauding.
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Arses Funny Humor
Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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Disease Media Negativity
If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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Hammers More
I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can’t fly
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Adelaide Air Fly Pointed
I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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Algebra Funny Humor Likely never
Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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Election Political Vote
There’s nothing like it, but it’s not as good as you think it’s going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club’s badge – but not a sausage.
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People Records Thinking Years
Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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Country Football Someone Team
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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Funny Humor Morning Snowplough
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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Angel Atheist Believe God People
It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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Change Mind Often Reserve
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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Becoming Engineer Joined Knowing Queues

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