If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
BILLY CONNOLLYThere’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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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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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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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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There’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
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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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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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The more you know the less the better.
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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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[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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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.
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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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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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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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