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.
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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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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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 think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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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 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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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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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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I just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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