Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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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 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.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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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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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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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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I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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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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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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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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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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