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.
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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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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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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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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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[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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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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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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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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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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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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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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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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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 decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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