My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
BILLY CONNOLLYFor me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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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.
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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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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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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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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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