Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
BILLY CONNOLLYPeople who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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 loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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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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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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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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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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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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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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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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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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