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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More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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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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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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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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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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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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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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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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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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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Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
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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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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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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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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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Don’t work out, work in.
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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 hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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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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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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