My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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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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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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There’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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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.
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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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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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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can’t fly
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didn’t even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!
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