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.
BILLY CONNOLLYOh 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???’
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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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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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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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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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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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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Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it’s like they’re in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.
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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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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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