Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
BILLY CONNOLLY
BILLY CONNOLLY
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Billy Connolly88 quotes“Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.”
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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.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly 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.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly 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.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly I don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly [To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly 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.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly didn’t even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!
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Blanche LincolnBlanche Lincoln Krush Groove was a movie at the time. That was my first break. I just got to New York. I was right out of college and I was happy to have a job.
Blair UnderwoodBlair Underwood I think that we’ll continue to try to look at ourselves in the mirror and see where we can do a better job, maybe where we can improve the process. But I think the fundamentals of the process will remain the same.
Bill BelichickBill Belichick At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey When you’re at the beginning of your career, there are a lot of, “I don’t care about this,” jobs that you take because it’s about building your resume and building connections.
Billy PorterBilly Porter You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn’t try to be a tiger, and you shouldn’t try to be something you aren’t. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature.
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