Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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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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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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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.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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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 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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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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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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