Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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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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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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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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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 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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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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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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I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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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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I don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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