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.
BILLY CONNOLLYI 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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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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I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
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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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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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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 once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can’t fly
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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