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.
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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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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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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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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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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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 just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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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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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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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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Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it’s like they’re in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.
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