If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
BILLY CONNOLLYActing is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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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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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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I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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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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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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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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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it’s like they’re in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.
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