I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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More Billy Connolly Quotes
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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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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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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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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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I’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.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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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 have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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There’s nothing like it, but it’s not as good as you think it’s going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club’s badge – but not a sausage.
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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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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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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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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 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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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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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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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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