If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
BILLY CONNOLLYOutgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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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 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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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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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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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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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’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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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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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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