If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
BILLY CONNOLLYMy definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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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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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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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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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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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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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’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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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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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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