There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
BILLY CONNOLLYI think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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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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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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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 don’t aim to offend.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to 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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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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