I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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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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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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I don’t aim to offend.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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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 hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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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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