People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
BILLY CONNOLLYTread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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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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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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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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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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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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