Don’t work out, work in.
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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I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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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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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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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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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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I 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.
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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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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 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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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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