If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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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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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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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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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 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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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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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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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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