If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
BILLY CONNOLLYI don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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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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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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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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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 don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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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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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’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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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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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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