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.”
BILLY CONNOLLYTread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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I don’t aim to offend.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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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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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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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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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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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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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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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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