I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
BILLY CONNOLLYAmerican 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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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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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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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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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’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 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’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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