There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
BILLY CONNOLLYPeople who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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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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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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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 I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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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 love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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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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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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