I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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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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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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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 don’t aim to offend.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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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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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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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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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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