Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
BILLY CONNOLLYWithout arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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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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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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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 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.
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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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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 was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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