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 CONNOLLYI have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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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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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.
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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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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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