I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
BILLY CONNOLLYI always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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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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I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
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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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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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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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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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