My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
BILLY CONNOLLYI 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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I just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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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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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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The more you know the less the better.
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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