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.
BILLY CONNOLLYI 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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I’d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I’ve been learning more about it as I’ve been doing interviews. I
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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I don’t aim to offend.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
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I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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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 hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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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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