A fart is just your arse applauding.
BILLY CONNOLLYIf you give people a chance, they shine.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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 spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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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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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 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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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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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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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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The more you know the less the better.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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I’ve never done a comedy club in my life. It’s weird because I don’t have the same background as most comics. I don’t have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
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