I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
BILLY CONNOLLY[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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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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Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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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 can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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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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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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