I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
BILLY CONNOLLYI loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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I’d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I’ve been learning more about it as I’ve been doing interviews. I
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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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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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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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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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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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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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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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