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.
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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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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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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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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I just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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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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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 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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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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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 don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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