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.
BILLY CONNOLLYI 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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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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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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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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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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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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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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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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