The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
BILLY CONNOLLYI was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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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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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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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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I don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
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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 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’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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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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