So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
BILLY CONNOLLYThere’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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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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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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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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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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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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[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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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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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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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
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The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you’re a zombie. And you’re talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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