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.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you’re a zombie. And you’re talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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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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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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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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