My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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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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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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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 was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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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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