There’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
BILLY CONNOLLYI set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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Try to live in a place you like.
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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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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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’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 was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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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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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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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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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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