It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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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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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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I don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
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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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[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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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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There’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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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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I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.
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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.
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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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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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