Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
BILLY CONNOLLYI don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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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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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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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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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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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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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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