Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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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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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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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 just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
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Try to live in a place you like.
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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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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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