I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
BILLY CONNOLLYDon’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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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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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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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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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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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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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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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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