If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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 spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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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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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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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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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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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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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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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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The more you know the less the better.
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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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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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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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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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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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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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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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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.
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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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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I don’t aim to offend.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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