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’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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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 love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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???’
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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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I don’t aim to offend.
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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 still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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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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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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