A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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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 love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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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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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
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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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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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I just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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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 can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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