I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
BILLY CONNOLLYBehind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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.
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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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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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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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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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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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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