I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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 worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
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I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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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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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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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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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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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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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.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
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