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!”
BILLY CONNOLLYDon’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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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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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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 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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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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The more you know the less the better.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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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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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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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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