I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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 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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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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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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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The more you know the less the better.
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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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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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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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