Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
BILLY CONNOLLYWhen I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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I just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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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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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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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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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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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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