The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
BILLY CONNOLLYNever run with scissors or other pointy objects.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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[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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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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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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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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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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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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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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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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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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