Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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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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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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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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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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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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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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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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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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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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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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