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.
BILLY CONNOLLYFor 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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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.
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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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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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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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Don’t work out, work in.
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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 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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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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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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I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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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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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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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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