Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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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 was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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The more you know the less the better.
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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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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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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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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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I’ve never done a comedy club in my life. It’s weird because I don’t have the same background as most comics. I don’t have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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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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I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can’t fly
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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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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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I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
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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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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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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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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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