I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
BILLY CONNOLLYWisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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.
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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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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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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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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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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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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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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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I’ve never done a comedy club in my life. It’s weird because I don’t have the same background as most comics. I don’t have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
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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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