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???’
BILLY CONNOLLYI hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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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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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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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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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Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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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 became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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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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didn’t even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!
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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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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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I don’t aim to offend.
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