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.
BILLY CONNOLLYActing is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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The more you know the less the better.
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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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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.
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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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I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
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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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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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