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.
BILLY CONNOLLYIt’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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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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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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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 am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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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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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 love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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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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