I 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.
BILLY CONNOLLYI was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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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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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 don’t aim to offend.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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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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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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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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I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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