So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
BILLY CONNOLLYI still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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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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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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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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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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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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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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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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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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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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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 you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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