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.
BILLY CONNOLLYScotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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 am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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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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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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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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