I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
BILLY CONNOLLYI think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I 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.
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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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Don’t work out, work in.
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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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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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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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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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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’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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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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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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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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