When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
BILLY CONNOLLYI don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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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 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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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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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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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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The more you know the less the better.
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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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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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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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