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.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’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 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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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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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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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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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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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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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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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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