I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
BILLY CONNOLLYWhen you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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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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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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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 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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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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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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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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