I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
BILLY CONNOLLYA lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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 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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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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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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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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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’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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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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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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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’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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