When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
BILLY CONNOLLYOutgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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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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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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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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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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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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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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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Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it’s like they’re in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.
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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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