Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
BILLY CONNOLLYSo, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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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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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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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The more you know the less the better.
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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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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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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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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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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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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