A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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I’d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I’ve been learning more about it as I’ve been doing interviews. I
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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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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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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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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’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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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 worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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