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?
BILLY CONNOLLYThe great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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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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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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 think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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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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I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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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 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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