There’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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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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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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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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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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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.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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