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.
BILLY CONNOLLYBehind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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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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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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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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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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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 don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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