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BILLY CONNOLLYI don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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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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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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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.
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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I’d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I’ve been learning more about it as I’ve been doing interviews. I
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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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