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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

Billy Connolly

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?
BILLY CONNOLLY

Funny Humor Look People Place
I’ve never done a comedy club in my life. It’s weird because I don’t have the same background as most comics. I don’t have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
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Clubs Comedy Comics Done Eight Weird
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.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Country Music Optimism People Wanter
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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Brother Funny Girlfriend Mine
There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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Adventure Being Happy Running
If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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Buckets Lose Utensils Weight
I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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Brought Catholic Guilt Level
I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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Desert Drawing Islands Middle Page
Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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Election Political Vote
I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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About Always Children Comedy Country
[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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Arriving Kill Killing MIssed Time
When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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Funny Someone Waitin Witty
Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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Objects Running Scissors
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.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Between People Body Country Crosses Malfunction
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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Believe Book Care Film Movie
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 CONNOLLY

Huge Love Simply Thinking You

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