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 CONNOLLYPolitically correct is the language of cowardice.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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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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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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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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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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The more you know the less the better.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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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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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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The 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.
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