Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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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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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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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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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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I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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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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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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