My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
BILLY CONNOLLYWhen you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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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’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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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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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 are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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.
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Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it’s like they’re in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.
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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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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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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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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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Try to live in a place you like.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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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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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 set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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