A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
BILLY CONNOLLYWhenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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 was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
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I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can’t fly
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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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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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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