Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
BILLY CONNOLLYI worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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 think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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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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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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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 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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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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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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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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