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.
BILLY CONNOLLYDon’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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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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Don’t work out, work in.
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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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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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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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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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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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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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