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All Quotes by author - Billy Connolly
" Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint. "
Mint
Ally
Tactics
" As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me. "
Successful
Me
Started
" Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head? "
Never
Mother
Head
" Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet. "
Autograph
Your
Fame
" I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do. "
Angels
Believe
People
" I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far. "
You
Angel
Believe
" 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. "
People
Wild
Dogs
" I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there. "
Know
Go
Algebra
" I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. 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. "
Look
Pictures
Thought
" If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name? "
He
Jesus
Name
" 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. "
You
Useless
Think
" I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place. "
Loved
Used
Child
" I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days. "
Love
Days
Itself
" I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little. "
Want
People
World
" 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. "
Desert
Drawing
Page
" I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be. "
I Am
Afraid
Myself
" It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things. "
Me
God
Different
" I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. "
Army
See
Always
" Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. "
Bicycle
Wonderful
Marriage
" My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. "
Intellectual
Funny
Thinking
" My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo. "
Tell
Parents
Pet
" Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on. "
Man
Alone
Try
" 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. "
People
Car
Drive
" The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards. "
Look
Attack
Great
" The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know. "
Style
New York
Music
" There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. "
Scotland
Seasons
Two
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