A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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 always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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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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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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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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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 was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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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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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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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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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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