The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you’re a zombie. And you’re talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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There’s nothing like it, but it’s not as good as you think it’s going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club’s badge – but not a sausage.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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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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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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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 don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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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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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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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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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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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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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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