I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe 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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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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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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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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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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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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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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Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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