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.
BILLY CONNOLLYBehind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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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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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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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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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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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 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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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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