I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
BILLY CONNOLLYWell, 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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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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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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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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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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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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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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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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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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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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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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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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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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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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