When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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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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I 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.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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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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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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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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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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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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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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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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There’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
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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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