Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
BILLY CONNOLLYI was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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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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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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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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Don’t work out, work in.
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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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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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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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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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