I don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
BILLY CONNOLLYOutgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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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 have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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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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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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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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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