I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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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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.
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didn’t even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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There’s nothing like it, but it’s not as good as you think it’s going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club’s badge – but not a sausage.
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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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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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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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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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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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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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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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The more you know the less the better.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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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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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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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 hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can’t fly
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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