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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.

Billy Connolly

A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Offending People Religious
I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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Acting Consuming Drawing Stuff
When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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Acting Hell Real
didn’t even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!
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Club Magazines Number People Radio Station
Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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Anthem Boring Country Funny Humor
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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Answers Guy Mountain
Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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Funny Humor Mother
Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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Disease Media Negativity
I don’t aim to offend.
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Offended Target The Aim
I’ve never done a comedy club in my life. It’s weird because I don’t have the same background as most comics. I don’t have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
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Clubs Comedy Comics Done Eight Weird
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.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Become Changing Clothes Life Successful
I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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Catholic Guilt Levels
Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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Fire Forests Tree
Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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Arches Audience People
I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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Friendship Glasgow Hands Suits
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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Believe Book Care Film Movie

I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.

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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.

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