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Billy Connolly

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I don't aim to offend.


— Billy Connolly


#i #offend

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.


— Billy Connolly


#another #artist #byrne #dali #i

I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.


— Billy Connolly


#days #every #i #i love #itself

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.


— Billy Connolly


#absolutely #always #child #delightful #go

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.


— Billy Connolly


#comedy #days #drawing #find #i

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.


— Billy Connolly


#am #far #i #i am #i think

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.


— Billy Connolly


#me #parents #pet #take #tell

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.


— Billy Connolly


#because #being #built #i #i love

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.


— Billy Connolly


#i #just #me #picking #press

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.


— Billy Connolly


#always #army #does #go #i






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In 1970 the Humblebums broke up with Rafferty going on to record a solo album: Can I Have My Money Back (1971). Connolly and his older sister Florence (named after their maternal grandmother) were cared for by two aunts Margaret and Mona Connolly his father's sisters who resented the children for the fact that they had to sacrifice their young lives in order to look after them. He became a good friend of the host Michael Parkinson and now holds the record for appearances on the programme having been a guest on fifteen occasions.

He is sometimes known especially in his native Scotland by the nickname 'The Big Yin' ('The Big One'). CBE (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish comedian musician presenter and actor. Connolly appears as the King of Lilliput in the 2010 remake of Gulliver's Travels.

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