Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
BILLY CONNOLLYIt 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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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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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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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’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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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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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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I don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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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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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 don’t aim to offend.
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