Billy Connolly Quotes
Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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I worked in Licorice Pizza when John Lennon was killed. I had the day off, but I came in anyway because people needed a place to mourn.
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I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.
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Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.
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In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.
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If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.
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A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.
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In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived "great" lives, but whose experience of it was in the same register as all our lives are - we feel the same extent of human emotion regardless of how exceptional our actions are: nothing is more exceptional than one's own life.
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To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.
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I think women, we are very interesting. We have a lot to say, and sometimes it's frustrating how all the lead parts are for men.
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I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
