When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
BILLY CONNOLLYSometimes 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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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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The more you know the less the better.
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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’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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Don’t vote, it only encourages 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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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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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 have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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